TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2809, 30 April 1895, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN.

' London, April 25. In an article discussing the Army, the Times says that it distrusts the entire War Office system. The Army is the most costly and least effective of the Great Powers, and only in India has it become a fighting body. With an expenditure of £16,000,000 annually, it asks why the cavalry is not fit to go to war, and it adds that Great Britain is not able to place a single army corps quickly in the field without a struggle. It is expected that the Budget will still further remove duties in the direction of a free breakfast table. Lord Rosebery has recovered from his recent illness. The rebels in the Brass district of the Niger Basin pay an indemnity of £SOO, and this ends the outbreak.

April 26. The trial of Oscar Wilde and Taylor has begun at the Old Bailey. Mark Twain visits Australia at the end of the year. An explosion has taken place in Denny Colliery in Glasgow. There were 177 persons working in the mine at the time, and of these 160 were rescued. It is believed that the remainder are killed. The death is announced of Lord Moncrieff.

The members of the Stock Exchange have subscribed £IOO towards the presentation to Messrs Ward, Brown, Peel, and Richardson, in recognition of their splendid play in the last test match in Melbourne. Paris, April 26. The press continue to abuse England for destroying European concert in the far east. The Journal des Debats says that the English colonies must be stupefied at England’s right-about-face in the east. Madrid, April 26. By means of traling the sunken man-of-war Reine Regente has been found in a hundred fathoms of water, between Capes Tarifa and Trafalgar. St. Petersburg, April 27. Madame Modjeaka has been expelled from Warsaw and all Russian territory, in consequence of the unpatriotic speeches delivered by her duriog her visit to the United States. Ottawa, April 26, After a three years enquiry the Commission appointed by the Canadian Government report that prohibition would injure business, extinguish a large source of municipal revenue, and involve compensation. The Commission suggest that high license fees should be charged in order to keep the liquor traffic down.

A fire broke out in a mammoth tobacco factory at Montreal, and a panic took place among the employees in the building, who numbered upwards of 1000. In their mad rush to escape they blocked the stairways, and 60 of those who were imprisoned by the block jumped from the windows and thus received terrible injuries. Capetown, April 26. Ziberat, the forger, was sentenced to seven years’ hard labour. St. John’s, April 28, The Newfoundland Parliament has adjourned until the 9th May to enable Canada to refer the important condition to the union of the two countries to the Imperial Parliament. Bombay, April 28. Prince Kas Rnlla, the Ameer’s second son, has arrived here en route to England. Thousands of Moslems were present on his arrival, and extended to him a hearty welcome.