TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2469, 25 February 1893, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN

London, Feb. 17,

At tho annual meeting of the Colonial Institute ;i feeling was generally expressed against amalgamation with the Imperial Institute. The Council, however, were authorised to receive overtures to that end without prejudice. Mild influenza is spreading in England. Professor Godwin Smith has expressed the opinion that Ireland will remain a vassal to England, but eventually will become independent. The St. James' Gazette asserts that the payment of members in the Victorian Parliament utterly failed to cecure representation of the masses. The Government will appoint a commission to suggest a scheme for the amalgamation of the city and gretter London.

Mr John Pettie, Scotch artist, who was elected R.A. in 1873, in place of Sir Edwin Landseer, jotate 54, is dead. H. C. Barker, who had recently bee >me bankrupt, shot himself with a revolver in a train. He had previously written to tho Official Receiver to come and fetch the body of " his victim". The Right Hon. Robert William Duff, M.P. for Banffshire, has been appointed to succeed Lord Jorsey as Governor of Now South Wales.

Another battery of artillery has been ordered lo EgyptIn tlm Waterloo Cup Captain beat Fullerton in the second round, owing to the lattei- meeting with an accident. Beulin, Feb. 23.

The Emperor, addressing a meeting of farmers, urged them to support the military, as they were essential to peace. Lisbon, Feb. 21.

The Portuguese Ministry have resigned owing to a protest by Germans against interference with the external debt without the consent of the bondholders. Vienna, Feb. 23.

Cholera is raging in the Russian provinces near the Austrian frontier, and a thousand cases are under treatment. Four hundred deaths were recorded for the month ending February 7th. An explosion has taken place in a mine in Skalitzs. The origin is unknown, there being no one in the shaft. Fifteen miners were killed. The Government have taken steps to close the mine. Roue, Feb. 23.

Twenty-live anarchists have been arrested in this city on a charge of being concerned in tho explosion of a dynamito bomb outside the Quirinal on January 27th.

St. Petersurg, Feb. 22

Owing to the poll-tax imposed by the Government, 60,000 people have abandoned their homes and will leave the country. A quarter of a million of people are starving in Finland. Cairo, Feb. 22.

The ferment is subsiding since tho Khedive has shown a desire to maintain order.

Ottawa, Feb. 21

The Canadian Government /have subsidised a line of steamers to trade to French ports. Feb. 23. Canadian farmers ask for the removal of duties on British exports. Lord Stanley of Preston, the GovernorGeneral, is urging the Canadian authorities to discard the Snider and adopt the Martini-Henry rifle. Calcutta, Feb. 28.

The Ameer of Afghanistan is approaching the Viceroy of India, with a view to the settlement of the frontier difficulty.

Washington, Feb. 22, General Beauregard, a proarinemfc Con federate soldier, is dead. New York, Feb. 23.

Terrific snow bliwsards have been experienced in the Eastern and Middle States, and railway traffic is impeded. Many persons have been frozen to death. President Harrison has revoked tbjj hostile canal dues.

AUSTRALIAN CABLE. Stdney, Feb. 22. The second reading of the Income Tax Bill was carried by 47 to 21. Feb. 23. The Helensburg difficulty lias been referred to arbitration.. The Corrumal colliery-owners h»YO notified their intention of reducing hewing rates. At a meeting of country members it was decided to form a Parliamentary Party to watch the interests of oouuti'Y districts. Beuuell, lato manager of the Paddington branch, of the English and Scottish Chartered Bank, who was convicted of the embezzlement of large sums of money belonging to the instution, was seuteuoed to 10 years' imprisonment. Sir G. R. Dibbs has expressed himself satisfied with the appointment of. Hon. Robert Duff, as of New South Wales. Sir &ui Samuel cables that he is qualified for the position. Adelaide, Feb. 22.

Mr J. Nicholson, Stipendiary magistrate, has been sentenced, to fain 1 your"/ imprisonment foy jlerrnudi'Ag the Economic, rHtiiding Society, to which he acted as tiulicito*-, of £20,0U0. Perth, Feb, 22.

Glass, the squatter who shot his two daughters, and committed suicide, left a letter confessing the crime. It is believed tlvit he also waited for his daughter 1 a lover, who, fortunately for himself, did not appear when expected.

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