TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2473, 7 March 1893, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN

London, March 3

It is reported that Australian Orangemen are supplying funds to the Ulster

men. England is fortifying Esquimault harbour.

March 5

A severve earthquake was experienced at Sandgate. The gas mains were severed, the roadways and sea-wall cracked, and upwards of one hundrd houses were damaged by the force of the shock. The damage will probably amount to several thousands of pounds. No fatalities are reported, but people walking along the streets were thrown down by the shock. The International Congress of Fire Brigades meet on June 12th. The conference was arranged by the Fire Brigades Union. The Ruahino will make a stay of ton days at Capetown for the purpose of repairing the damage caused by the fire which broke out in one of her holds after she left London for the colonies.

Owing directly to the conflicting interests of ship-owners and shippers, little progress is being made at the conference which is sitting to consider the bills of lading question. Lord Howard de Walden is suing for a divorce from his wife. Two. co-re-spondents are joined in the suit. Lady de Walden on her part applies for a judical separation on tho grounds of gross cruelty, drunkenness, and personal assaults. In her evidence Lady Walden denied that she had squandered her husband’s money, but admitted that she kept kept late hours. Her husband had ordered she servants to exclude her from tho precincts of the house, and had also insulted her relatives. Lady Walden’s evidence was supported by other witnesses.

In his match with Peall, Roberts made a spot-barred break of 737, beating his own previous record of 690 iu 1889. The railway companies have written to Mr Mundella, President of the Board of Trade, agreeing to reduce their rates. The Economist says that the Victorian finances are iu a dangerous state. The trust and loan funds are exhausted, the customs revenue is decreasing, and the Treasury has prostituted itself to the dense ignorance of grasping and selfish electors. The paper urges the colony to abandon the huge system of municipal bribery, postpone the issue of fresh loans, and make an effort to increase the exports In her article in the Times on New South Wales, the correspondent who visited Australia some months ago in the interests of that journal, says tb»t Cabinet responsibility iu the colony is too slight. The country is covered with superfluous and unproductive works which were built out of the public revenue. The Civil Service, which is encumbered with officials who are not required, needs re-organisation. Reform is also necessary in the system of national bookkeeping, a change being vitally urgent iu order to enable the Treasurer to control the expenditure. CAiircieiaX enterprise in the colony is now conducted under fluctuating political direction, and either a more autocratic government or a better method is required to put things iu the colony on a more satisfactory footing. Paris, March 2.

Madame Jules Grevy is dead. The Figaro is to be prosecuted for publishing evidence in the Panama case before it had been presented to the Court. Six hundred students broke out in a riot against women attending the classes. The ringleaders have been arrested. Berlin, March 2. The Emperor, speaking at Brandebury, reiterated that his belief was unshaken that he was entrusted with a mission by God, and he was confident that he would succeed in satisfying all. March 3. The Reichstag have voted £125,000 to suppress slavery in Africa. Rome, March 5. The Pope has received gifts amounting to £225,000 from pilgrims. Cairo, March 2. The Khedive complains that the attitude of Egypt during the recent trouble was not fairly stated, owing to the fact of her having no representative in London. He trusts to tho honour of Great Britain to evacuate tho country. ! Zanzibar, March 0. The natives of Nyassaknd are the planters into Portuguese terr itory ° J JSH ”: II T OS , March 2.' a i u l an i h as made a fresh A to the American Government, not to take her little vineyard from her. The supporters of annexation assert that Princess Kaiulani’s protest against being deprived of the right of succession to the throne is part of the British scheme. Ottawa, March 2. In the Dominion Parliament Sir R. J. Cartwright’s motion to reduce tho Customs duties and establish freetrade was rejected by a majority of 54. New York, March 2. Severe lloods have been experienced in Guatemala. Six villages were submerged and a hundred lives lost.

AUSTRALIAN CABLE,

Svdney, March 3

A visit to Block 10, Broken Hill, which has been closed to the press for some time, revealed the fact that all the rich ore bodies are worked out; that very few men are working in the mine, and that the ore in sight is not sufficient to last more than six weeks. Colonel Hutton, aide-de-camp to the Queen, has been appointed Commandant to the New South Wales forces. March 4.

It is fearfully dry in Riverina. There has been no rain in the Narrandora districts since November, and stock is beginning to perish. Melbourne. March 3.

Yesterday was the hottest day for eleven years, the thermometer registering 105 in the shade. Serious bush fires are°still raging. Parliament has prorogued. Newcastle. March 3.

Seel, chief officer of the barque Annie St ifiord, charged with the manslaughter of William King, whose death he caused by striking him with a block and knocking him from the topmast rigging to the dbckj was sentenced to three years.

Perth, March 3. At Bundaberg during the recent gale the sea flooded the houses of many families, and fruit crops sustained much damage. At Guiudalup the Danish barque Dato, of 474 tons, is ashore, and apparently is a total wreck. March 4. A vigorous search is being made for the luggers missing since the recent gales. The are believed to be about 50 in number, and there were 19 men on board one of them.