TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2448, 7 January 1893, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN. ; London, Jan, 4. The statement that the Irish Constabulary are being disarmed is officially denied. It is reported that Mr Gladstone proposes to reduce the Irish tribute under Home Rule, on condition that there are 32 Irish members in the House of Commons. Another agrarian outrage is reported from County Clare, Ireland, in Tulla, a town ten miles east of Ennis. Men with their faces masked fired at two women, but missed. The outrage is attributed to revenge for ejectment from some property. Princess Marie renounces her claim to the British throne. Professor Pearson, of Melbourne, in his book on “ National Life and Character in Australia,” justifies Rachad’s reasons for the exclusion of Chinese from Australia. The libel action brought by Mr J. J. O’Kelly against Major Le Caroii has been abandoned. The weather throughout the United Kingdom and the Continent is intensely cold. Many parts of the country have been visited by heavy snowstorms, and the railway and other traffic has been interrupted to a considerable extent. Sir W. V. Harcourt, Chancellor of the Exchequer, and Mr A. J. Mundella, President of the Board of Trade, will receive on the 15th inst. an important deputation (including the Agents-General of the Colonies) in favour of a decimal system in respect to coinage and weights and measures. The river Seine, in France, and the Thames are frozen in many places. At Harborough, 16 miles south of Leicester, on the Welland, a cricket match was played on the ice, and there was heavy scoring. Great Britain agrees to guarantee Italy the cost of transport of the Brindisi mails to the extent of £20,000. Smallpox is spreading at an alarming rate in Lancashire. At a special meeting of the Evicted Tenants Commission, Mr J. Dillon, M.P., expressed the opinion that the only remedy for the trouble was to appoint a Board of Arbitration to settle disputes and arrange terms of sale with the tenants. The Dewar of Nupore has been created Knight Grand Star of India. The Admiralty enquiry into the stranding of H.M.S. Howe, on the Spanish Coast, has concluded. The Court found that the sailing directions issued to Captain Hastings, Commander of the vessel, were safe only at high tide, and that Rear Admiral Fairfax was not responsible for the accident. The Daily Telegraph’s Vienna correspondents wires that the late John Dominis, of Hawaii, was in early life an Austrian sailor, and married a womau of Dalmatia, in Austro-Huugary, and that his widow intends to claim Liliukalauis, a property in the Islands. Mr Labouchere, on the ground principally of expediting business, protests against the retention of the Irish members in the British Parliament, as he considers it would lead the House of Commons and the country to reject Mr Gladstone’s Home Rule proposals. During the coming session of Parliament Lord Onslow intends to introduce a Bill providing for the branding of imported meat with a mark showing the QOVUitry whence it came. The Marquis of Ripon, Colonial ■ Secretary, has transferred the Government of Northern Bechuanaland to the British South Africa Company. ' In giving evidence before the Evicted Tenants Commission yesterday, Mr J. Dillon, M.P., stated that the total ] receipts in aid of the Plan of Campaign ' amounted to £234,000. It is reported that Mr Gladstone will explain the provisions of his Home Rule 1 Bill in the House of Commons on 6th ' February. Madkid, Jan. 4. A meteorolite of unexampled size has fallen in Pozaldez, and a scientific com- 1 mission have gone out to examine it. J Beulin, Jan. 3. 1 The National Zeitung discredits the 1 statement of illegal distribution of the Guelph fund. The Berlin Post characterises it as a pure invention intended 1 to produce an effect similar to that pro- 1 duced in France by the Panama dis- ! closures. Norwarts, the leading Socialist who first made the statement, affirms that it is true. ' Vienna, Jan. 3. 1 The Austrian ammunition factories have been forbidden to supply smokeless ' powder to the Russian authorities. Jan. 5. Railway traffic between Vienna and Buda-Pesth has been stopped by heavy i snowstorms. ( St. Petersburg, Jan. 3, ( The G/,a re witch will shortly pay a visit to the Emperor of Germany. ] Jan. 4. i Several provinces are threatened with famine, and the Government are arranging to distribute immense quantities of rye. Thousands of the destitute, who attempted to cross the frontier into German territory, were compelled to return. General Schenieff says that the most popular of all Russian wars is the coming war with Germany. Cairo, Jan. 3. A further attack has been made on the village of Gomai by 350 Dervishes, whi were again repulsed, losing several men. A fierce battle was fought at Amhigoe between the Dervishes and the Egyptian troops, The Egyptian cavalry surprised the Dervishes’ cavalry and infantry at Ambigol wells, the latter being greatly superior in numbers. Fierce hand to hand fighting took place. The loss on the British side included Captain Ayno, of the Dorsetshire Regiment, and one ; Major of the Egyptian troops. Fifty of the Egyptain cavalry were left dead on the field. After their defeat the Der- i vishes fled southwards. Ottawa. Jan. 4. Mr M. Dowell, Minister of Trade, disbelieves the statement of the Now York - Sun that President Harrison intends to ' abolish the privilege of the Canadian : railways for the transport of merchandise in bond through the United States free of duty, and he sajs that if the threat bo ’ carried into effect, Canada will be ready 1 with retaliation, i

Calcutta, Jan. 3. The Calcutta Englishman forecasts a deficit of 160 lacs of rupees on the estimate contained in the Budget instead of the expected surplus. .New Yoke, Jan. 3. A conspiracy to steal the body of the late Jas. Gould has been discovered, the plan of the thieves being to tunnel into the vault. The tomb, to which electric alarms had been attached, is now paraded night and day by two men. While acting a charade in San Francisco a girl, who took the part of a king, slipped in a murder scene, stabbing a young man to the heart. She was bailed by deceased’s brothers. Washington, Jan. 5. The United States delegates to the Monetary Conference at Brussels have resigned, so as to allow Mr Cleveland, the President-elect, a free hand in dealing with the silver question. A terrible sequel to a lynching expedition is reported from Bakersville, the capital of Mitchell County, in North Carolina. A prisoner confined in the local gaol was dragged from his cell by an infuriated crowd, and hurried to the forest on the outskirts of the town where the unfortunate wretch was lynched. The mob were followed by seven policemen, who engaged the lynchers. A furious fight ensued, resulting in the death of die whole of the police and tvvenly-ii. eof the law-breakers. Among the l:Mer were many of the most prominent men of the country.

AUSTRALIAN CABLE. Sydney, Jan. 4. A fierce southerly gale is raging. A boat was swamped on the Paramatta, and two men named Atkinson and Kempsey were drowned. The Monowai encountered the full force of the gale in the run across from Auckland, and her deck cabins were washed out by the heavy seas breaking on board. A man named Everard was arrested on suspicion of having committed the outrage on the woman Morrison, who died from the effects of ill-usage. The prisoner created a sensation a few years ago by assaulting women, and earned the sobriquet of “ Jack the Ripper.” Jan. 5. The output of coal at Newcastle for the year has decreased by 350,000 tons, valued at £250,000. The principal decrease was in the supply to Victoria of 77,000 tons, and to Adelaide of 114.000, due to the Broken Hill strike, and to America of 96,000. During the year the Sydney mint has issued 2,837,000 sovs. Melbourne, Jan. i>. The Attorney-General has the Crown Law Officers, to prose'' - , ~L M. Davies an J Messrs James ** ~ r F. B. Mvmtu and And- J u » the Melbourne 50u > t ? e . I wh ° l r e of „ i-i r. i directors of the Mercantile o£ Australiaj Ml . Milledge, Le manager, and Messrs Ellis and Richardson, auditors, on a charge of issuing ia February last a misleading balance-sheet. Influenza is again very prevalent, and a large number of postal and telegraph officials are attacked. Dr Cresswell predicts a return of the choleraic epidemic on the Continent, and advises the Board of Health to continue precautions.