TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2455, 24 January 1893, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN. London, Jan. 19. Mr Gladstone contradicts the statement made by Mr Gillies in the Victorian Assembly that he had invested money in station property. He explains that he has a cousin who was formerly a squatter.

City men approve of Sir G. R. Dibbs’ scheme of taxation.

The Federation League is satisfied with the comments on its report, and states that it did not expect to excite general enthusiasm. The chief interests to which it is devoting attention are the questions of defence and the appointment of deputies from the colonies to confer with the Imperial Cabinet on foreign questions. Owing to public attention being at present concentrated on Home Rule, the league will defer action. Arctic weather is being experienced on the Continent. Many homeless Germans have been frozen to death.

Jan. 21; Mr R. E. Stevenson, the novelist, is reported to be dying in Samoa. The city newspapers are overflowed with correspondence on the AutiCrinolme League. The Queen and the Princess of Wales decline to join the league, and refuse to express an opinion on the question. Lord H. Oswald is dead.

-Egan, who was imprisoned in connection with dynamite outrages in Ireland some years ago, has been released from custody. The Liberal Federation warn the House of Lords that it may expect to be abolished if it rejects autonomy for Ireland.

Mr H. Hayter, president of the Association of Civil Engineers, says that a tunnel to connect Ireland with England is feasible at a depth of 650 feet. The tunnel would require to be 34. miles in length, and as an investment would not be enticing. He thinks that it would be necessary to have it undertaken as a national work.

Lord Carrington, speaking at the East End, said that the cessation of Stateaided immigration of New South Wales must not be taken as evidence of unkindness to Great Britain.

Mr Arnold Morley and the late Mr Samuel Morley’s executors are suing two brothers named Loughman, of Shoreham, who belong to the sect of Plymouth Brethren, for obtaining £140,000 from Mr Henry Morley by undue influence. The latter, who was epileptic, left his family and became childishly attached to the Loughman s. He eventually committed suicide. The defence is that he was only subject to religious mania. In the case brought by Mr Arnold Morley and the executors of the late Mr Samuel Morley against the brothers Loughman, the evidence showed that Mr Henry Morley withdrew his capital from his brother’s farm, and gave Loughman brothers £50,000, and a large sum to charities, stating that he was surrounded by a pack of swindlers. The trial of those concerned in the Putney murder, committed in November, resulted in Charlwood being sentenced to five years’ penal servitude, Mrs Francis to three years’, and the doctor to six months’ imprisonment. Milan, ex-King of Servia, and his Queen Natalie have been reconciled. Rome, Jan. 19.

Much excitement has been caused in Rome by the arrest of Tanlonga, the governor, and the secretary, of the Banca Romaua, on a charge of fraud. Belgrade, Jan. 19.

Further rioting has given rise to an accusation of treason among the members of the Chamber of Deputies. Hong Kong, Jan. 21.

Rioters at Schuhang attacked the Custom-house, but were suppressed by the British residents. Zanzibar, Jan. 21.

A small German force at Kilassa defeated 2000 Wahebas, with a loss of 50 killed.

Yokohama, Jan. 19,

The Naval Board at Yokohama have exonerated the ofheers of the Peninsular and Oriental Company’s Ravenna from blame for collision with a Japanese warship by which 74 lives were lost. The Japanese Government are offended at tfie decision, and charge the Rayenua’s phot with manslaughter. ' Washington, Jan. 19.

An immense fleet of coal barges is wedged in the Ohio river by ice. Dynamite will have to be used to remove them.

Gatling is making a gun impelled by an electric motor to supersede all his machine guns. The American Government are testing the weapons. Jan. 20.

A Minnesota Judge has decided that the Chinese Exclusion Act is contrary to the Constitution of the United States, inasmuch as it violates the right of trial by jury. New York, Jan. 21.

News from Port au Prince states that during the recent rising General Hyppolito’s eldest son was poisoned, The rising has been suppressed, A passenger train collided with an oil tank train in Oreton, Madison County, Illinois. The wreckage caught fire and ignited the oil. Ten passengers were parboiled and forty injured.

AUSTRALIAN CABLE.

Melbouiine, Jan. 20. Humphreys, the defaulting secretary of the Employers’ Union and Shipowners’ Association, has been arrested. It is believed that a sum of £2OOO received by him is unaccounted for, and other deficiencies .are anticipated, The Premier has resigned, and Mr Patterson has been summoned to form a new Cabinet. Jan. 21.

The following is the new Ministry:— Premier, Chief Secretary, and Minister of Railways, Mr Patterson; Treasurer, Mr Carter; Attorney - General, Sir B. O’Longhlin ; Commissioner of Public Works, Crown Lands, and Minister of Agriculture, Mr Webb; Minister of Water Supply, Mr Mclntyre ; Minister of Education, Mr Campbell; Minister of Defence, Mr Reid. Adelaide, Jan. 20.

Mr Smith, an ex-member of the Swedish Senate, is touring the colonies, seeking suitable land for the settlement of Swedish »grioulti lists.