TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2367, 9 June 1892, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN,

London, June 4. At the annual meeting of the shareholders of the Peninsular and Oriental Company, Mr J. Sutherland, the chairman, said that the receipts had declined £90,000. compared with 1890-91. This was due chiefly to the lowering of freights, loss on exchange, and to the fact that two million more tons of shipping had lately come into competition. This had the effect of restricting the traffic to ships of the newest type. Millions of tons of shipping were at present lying idle at British ports. The company hoped to make a savins by using Eastern coal, which would Mr Perceval has forwarded to the New Zealand Government a report on dairy produce, including the advice of an expert as to the best means of expanding and improving the colonial trade. The Queen has expressed her gratification at the betrothal of the Duke of Edinburgh’s daughter. Parliament and the people of Roumania are enthusiastic over the matter, and the Foreign Minister said that the friendship between England and Roumania was sealed by the alliance. The Press and the Salvation Army leaders consider it improbable that the class selected for the General’s over-sea colony in New Zealand will be chargeable on the Government of that colony, therefore a guaran tee is useless. Mr Chamberlain warns the Nonconformists in England that they will be false to their traditions if they allow Home Rule, which will place the lives, the property, and the religious liberties of their co-religionists under a nominal Irish hierarchy. Mr R. L. Stevenson in a letter to the Times insists that Cedercrantz, the Chief Justice of Samoa, bo replaced by another official, and attributes the singular actions by Baron Pilsach, President of the Municipal Council at Apia, to his connection with the purchase of Samoa. The Times implies that either the Municipal Council or the Government used Pilsach for their own purposes, and then goes on to state that the enormities recorded against the officials at Samoa are monstrous, and, if half of alleged offences are correct, diplomatic intervention should be urgently demanded. Yet, says the Times, Mr Stevenson’s story is an amazing ono. Both the French and the German press are bitter in their comments on the alleged barbarity of the British officials in Uganda. It is asserted that 50,000 Roman Catholic natives were robbed and their houses burned, and that thousands of women and children were sold into slavery. The English papers do not believe the charges, ami await despatches from Captain Lugard. June 5.

The Statist, referring to the remarks made in regard to freetrade at the recent meeting at Hastings, said that the whole speech had produced a great deal of discussion in the Cabinet which had never been reported. It is reported that Mrs Laboucliore, Lady Edith Howe, Lady Homers, and a dozen other well-known persons have been converted to the Church of Rome. June 0. The Government will ask the House of Commons to guarantee a Mauritius relief loan of £OOO,OOO. It is reported that a revolt has broken out in Armenia, and that Turkish troops have been defeated by the rebels.

Reports have reached here to the effect that the British mission in Morocco has failed.

Mr Dillon has proposed a board of arbitration to apportion the seats in Ireland between the Paruellites and antiParnellites at the coming elections. A London firm is urging the Argentine Government to establish butter export in that country. The brothers Redmond have sailed for America.

It is stated that the Parnellites are determined to fight every seat. Mr William Redmond will bo a candidate for Cork.

During the last two or three months several girls have been poisoned in London under mysterious circumstances, and the police believe that they have at last got a clue to the murderer. Prince Ferdinand of Bulgaria is visiting the Queen at Balmoral. The Times says that tbo aborigines, ip Northern Queensland have- boon treated likp wiltj beasts, and that it would be politic on the part of the Government of the colony not to provoke discussion. It believes that it may be possible to use inferior races for the deyelopmep f of tfie colony, and at the same tipie avoid settling them permanently on the soij. Mr T. Harrington lias proposed that a truce be arranged between the Irish parties, each section retaining it present position until Mr Gladstone’s Home Rule Bill has been produced. Paris, June 3,.

Germany and France are disputing over th° owimrahh' °f tire Ahlahra group, little islands some distance off tire coast of Zanzibar. M. Zola was defeated for election to the French Academy by 27 to 3. June 4, The Parisian Municipal Council have voted 200,000 francs to celebrate the anniversary of their centenary. Juno 5. An anarchist named Drouoht has revealed the bidding place of 150 of bis comrades. In the event of the truth of the allvgations against Colonel Lugard being confirmed, the French Government will di,iaaiKt tlun the, mission to Uganda .shall |be reorganised, a.d the aggr\h«iWb i punished. 1 It is ihpqrtud that tbo British East Africa Company will withdraw Colonel i Lugard’s expedition.

June 7. Mr Ribot claims the right to occupy the Amsterdam and St. Paul islands in the Indian Ocean. Rome, June 5. Signor Gioletti was defeated on the Budget in Committee, and supplies were voted only for a month in advance. Berlin, June 0. The German press is indignant at Mr Stevenson’s letter on Samoan affairs, and denounces it as mi indirect attempt to destroy German influence in that country, Brussels, June 4. The National Zeitung deprecates the acceptance of the charges made by Captain Lugard in connection with the Uganda mission until an enquiry has been made. Vienna, Juno 2. One hundred and thirty bodies have been recovered from the Berkenberg mine. Several members of the rescue parties have lost their lives in attempting to save the sufferers. It is believed the fire was caused by an incendiary. The Lower House have passed a resolution that the State shall support the families of the victims. The same mine was fired in the fifteenth century. June 7. Twenty-seven miners have been suffocated while attempting to rescue their comrades. St. Petersburg, June 7.

Fourteen thousand Jews left Odessa for England, America, and Australia last week.

The steamer Markern was burnt on a river in Russia, sixty persons being drowned. Three hundred houses have been burnt in Kovno, a town on the Niemen, and two thousand persons rendered homeless.

A man who had saved twelve lives in tlie burning mine near Prague lost his own life in attempting to save a thirteenth. Of the men originally in the mine only thirteen were saved. Three waggons were filled with the remains of victims. It is stated that the mine was set on fire in several places. The damage is estimated at £125,000. Calcutta, June 3.

The total deaths from cholera at Sinigar up to the present amount to three thousand. Zanzibar, June 3. Bishop Kirk has complained bitterly of the action of the Catholics against the British in Uganda. Washington, June 3. The official minimum estimate of the damage by the recent floods between this city and Now Orleans is £10,000,000. Jane 0. A cloud burst and wrecked the oil city of Titusville, in Pennsylvania, and lightning set fire to the refineries afterwards. „The destruction was enormous, and 150 persons were drowned or burnt to death. The burning oil from the refineries set fire to the slopes of Oil Creek, and destroyed several villages. Despatches from Venezuela state that the commander of the insurgents reports that he captured Comarabo. There were concealed batteries at the mouth of the Ricon, and round the Government forces, several hundred of whom were killed. A large number of prisoners and great quantities of munitions of war wore also seized.

The house of a jeweller at Kensington, in Pennsylvania, has been dynamited. Two people were killed and many injured. The Republican Convention opens at Minneapolis to-day. New York, June 3.

The Venezuelan rebels have captured Maturin. Paul, a former president, is encouraging and aiding the insurgents. June 7.

It is estimated that the damage done to Titusville is 1,500,000 dollars, while each of the adjacent counties suffers to the extent of 1,000,000 dollars. Many persons are missing, and numbers perished through burning oil floating on the flood waters.

AUSTRALIAN CABLE. Sydney, June 5. Mr Walker, M.L.A., was remanded, and bail was refused. Melbourne, June 7, The Government have given instructions for Deeming’s effects to be handed over to the Curator of Estates. The dispute with tlm Railway Commissioners has been settled, Mr Shiels annqvpieed in the House of Assembly today that Mr Speight is to receive a sum equivalent to his salary for half the unexpired term of his office*- Messrs Lord and Green, the other Commissioners, are |q i-eeeive a similar amount of compensation) Q l ' the alternative of another appointment in the Public Service.

IM PER lAL PAR LI AMENT,

London, June 3. In the Hopsp, of Commons Sir W, V. Harpourt said that the British East African Company must bo held liable for what lias taken place in Uganda, Tim report of the committee appointed by the House of Commons to enquire into the hours of labor exacted from railway servants is strongly adverse to the railway companies. Jin e 7. In the House of Commons Mr Gladstone strongly opposed the formation of a Labor Department.