TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2876, 3 October 1895, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN. London, Sept. 30. The Financial News, commenting on Mr Ward's budget, advises the speedy extinction of the remaining Treasury Bills. Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Walter Wilkin has been chosen Lord Mayor of London. Seventeen British war-ships are now assembled at Lemnos. The Porte is alarmed at this action on the part of the Imperial Government. The Observer applauds New South Wales and Tasmania for prompting an Antarctic expedition, which it considers more dangerous than one to the North Pole. Lord Lamington has been appointed Govern or of _Queen siand. The Times says that he has travelled widely and will be likely to prove a good successor to Sir H. Norman, whose record of able and kindly government will be difficult to surpass. Oct. 1. Owing to a threatened war in Ashantee, Gold Coast officers have been summoned to London to confer with the authorities here. Professor Haffkine is returning to Europe after a residence of three years in India, where at his own expense he inoculated upwards of forty thousand people against cholera. The Indian officials confirm the efficacy of his process, though during the cholsra epidemic in Lucknow the proportion of deaths of persons inoculated was similar to that among those not treated by the Professor's process. The tender of Dunlop & Co., Glasgow, for the New Zealand cable steamer has been accepted. The price is £38,000. The vessel is to be completed iu six months. Reinsurance premiums of over £lO 10s per cent, are being paid on the ship Timaru, which is overdue from Melbourne to Londen. Paris, Sept. 29. The French Budget Commission are discussing Cavaignac's charges against the army administration. He accuses the authorities of bungling and winking at contractors' frauds. M. Pasteur will receive a State funeral. Both the English and French papers lament the death of M. Pasteur as the loss of the foremost scientist of the age. The French Budget Committee have reduced the War Estimates by £240,000. St. Petersburg, Sept. 29. Eighteen additional batteries of artillery are to be added to tne Russian military establishment. Washington, Sept. 30. Mr Harrison does not intend to stand for the Presidency. Havanna, Sept. 29. The captain of a company of Cuban Volunteers met his own sou at the head of a band of insurgents. The son shot his father dead and routed the volunteers. Tokio, Sept. 30. The popular discontent at the withdrawal of the Japanese from Liatoug peninsula is increasing, and plots are on foot against ministers.

AUSTRALIAN CABLE,

Sydney, Sept. 30. The Marine Board suspended the certificate of Mr Lanfear, second mate of the Cattherthun, for six months from the date of the wreck. The chairman said that the board recognised that he had done all that was possible to save the ship when he realised her position, although in doing so by an error of judgment he had wrecked her. A severe hailstorm did great damage to the orchards at the North Shore and adjoining districts. J Oct. 1. The Premier has received intimations showing that all the colonies are favorable to the proposed uniform banking legislation. News has been received from the Solomon Islands of the murder of two white traders named Atkinson and Floyd by the native crew of their vessel. It it further stated that the natives ate the bodies. Adelaide, Oct. 1. The Premier thinks that Australian relations with Japan are sufficiently important to warrant the holding of an Intercolonial Conference on the subject, and he is making enquiries as to whether the other colonies are likely to agree to its establishment. With reference to the recent discovery of a marked boabab tree at Shaw's Creek, Northern Territory, investigation goes to prove that the inscription was made by Fred Adams, one of the members of the •North Australia exploring expedition, which visited the Northern Territory iu 1825. BIUSKANE, Oct. L At Charters Towers a skip weighing a ton fell down a shaft 900 ft, and beat William Smith, who was working below, into a jelly. Another miner uameci Roonan was also killed. Perth, Sept. 30. The Assisted Schools Abolition Bill passed through Committee after a long debate over the compensation clause. The Governnnnt carried an amount of £20,000 by one vote, but, deferring to the wish of a large section of the House, afterwards reduced it to £15,C30, and this was accepted. _______________