TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2815, 14 May 1895, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN. London, May 10. The Right Hon. Sir Robert Peel, so of the famous Sir Robert Peel, an brother to the late Speaker of the Hous of Commons, died suddenly of hemorrhag of the brain. Lady Ripon presented Mrs Ward am Mrs Montague Nelson at the Queen’ drawing room The Hon. Mr Ward has addressed th colonial party in the House of Common . on New Zealand politics. Sir Johi Gorst presided. As he appeared at the Nationa Liberal Club, the Premier looked pali and worn, and was leaning on a stick, Hi claimed that the recent victories in bye elections had fortified the position ol the Government. He admitted that thi Newcastle Programme was unfinished but the Government were prepared tc carry it out to the end if the Liberals ii Parliament and country gave them then support. Howard’s accomplices drew £32(X from the continental banks in a few days by means of forged notes upon Coutts’ Bank, London, The facts discovered by the police go to show thal the forgers were preparing an immense coup. At the Chester meeting to-day the race for the Cup resulted as follows Killsallaghan, 1; Son of a Gun, 2; Theseus, 3. May 11. At the Kempton Park meeting the raee for the Royal Two-year-old Plate resulted as follows ;—St. Erurqnin, 1; Galistan, 2; Fanny Boat, 3. The Great Jubilee Stakes resulted as follows:—Victoria Wild, 1; Greyley, 2 ; Le Diable, 3. The Privy Council dismissed the New Zealand appeal case, Johnston v. Oldham, with coats. Oscar Wilde will be put on trial again on May 20th. The ship Cumbrae, 1355 tons, Captain Fisher, which left Sydney for Valparaiso on February 9th, is believed to have been lost. The Manchester committee of merchants and manufacturers are negotiating with the Gulf lino of steamers for the despatch of steamers direct from Australia to Manchester, beginning in Ocotober. The Canadian Government have invited the Hon. J. G. Ward to visit Ottawa to discuss matters of general interest as between Canada and New Zealand. Mr Ward accepts the invitation conditionally on his engagements permitting it. Mr Ward informed the colonial party of the House of Commons that New Zealand desired a naval station. In view of the results of the Japanese war, Sir Charles Dilke considered the station in Sydney was sufficient. Captain Lugard has returned from West Africa. In the course of an interview he vouched for the truth of the statement that the Governor of Dahomey has led a French expedition up the Niger river, and he declared that two large forces are assembled at the lower river. Captain Lugard concluded a treaty with the chiefs of Borgu on the Niger without paying attention to French claims. The Times does not question that the French seizure of British territory in the Niger claims involved a monstrous pretension, and that the good feeling existing between London and Paris alone prevented the company’s troops from ejecting the French. Lord Rosebery is cruising in the Channel under medical advice. Pams, May 10. Misses Amelia Wood and Ada Crossley, from Australia, have made their successful debut at Madame Marchesi’s concert at the Salle Ereard.

The French Press reports that the Governor o£ Dahomey completed the formal occupation of the Hinterland up to the Niger. The French religious orders are intensely excited, and unable to decide on the attitude of the taxation of the bishops, and are disputing it. The cardinals, priests, bishops, and 150,000 monks are affected by it. Bishop Puget urges that the tax be paid under protest, as refusal means war against the State, and a casus belli between France and the Vatican. Madrid, May 10. News has been received that a survivor of the Reina Regente, the Spanish warship which recently foundered off the entrance to the Straits of Gibraltar, was found, lashed to a plank, drifting in the mid-Atlantic, by an outward-bound ship, but died a few minutes after being taken on board. Berlin, May 9, Chancellor Hohenlohe introduced the Anti-Socialist Bills in the Reichstag today, He urged that the foundation of the nation’s moral and rel'gious life was at stake, and asked the House to reinstate the provisos imposing penalties for resistance to the authority of the Government. May 10. In the Reichstag the anti-revolutionary Bills, which were virtually abandoned by Prince Hohenlohe as hopeless, were rejected. The Minister of War declared that the German arm was a solid wall, and that it was useless for the Socialists who had opposed the measures to attempt to destroy it by merely picking at the foundations. There is much rejoicing in Germany at the rejection of the Bills. Vienna, May 9. The town of Rubin, in Hungary, has been destroyed by tiro. Constantinople, May 10. A Russian Note to thi Porto requests that reforms bo carried out in Armenia, and adds that Franco and Great Biiiain concur in this view. The Sultan is said to bo astounded at the concerted action of the powers named. Ottawa, May 12. The Hon. J. G. Foster, Minister of Finance, states that Newfoundland has agreed to union with the Dominion. Victoria, 8.C., May 12. The Government complain that the United States have not yet paid the Behring Sea award ; that the fishermen are, therefore, practically penniless, and unable to relit for the present season. New York, May 10. It is reported hero that .TOOO rebel Cuban cavalry were routed by tho Spaniards with a loss of jLTUO. Tho latter lost ODD.