TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 3470, 25 July 1899, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN.

London, July 20. Great heat continues. In London the temperature is 86 in tho shade. London, July 23. At the Liverpool July Meeting the Cup was won as follows: —Mr P. Buchanan’s East Thorpe 1, Lord William Beresford’s Grodno 2, Sir E. W. Griffiths’ Saintia 3. The Australian horse Merman was fifth. The steamer Waikato has cot been spoken since she touched at Teueriffe early in May. The owners have requested the Admiralty to search the Crozet Islands. By a disastrous fire at Wycombe) Buckinghamshire, fifty families were rendered homeless. ’I he Muekross estate, which includes Lake Killarney, has been sold to Mr Thomas Gallagher, of Ballygoland, Greencastle, Antrim, head of the great tobacco manufacturing firm of the same name, for £85,000. News hasbeon received that an explosion has occurred on the destroyer Bullfinch while she was making her steam trial in the Solent. Eight of the crew were killed and six injured. Her Majesty the Queen sent messages of condolence to the relatives and sufferers. Jaivis won the Half-mile Swimming Championship of England in 12min 48 3 oth sec; Lane, the Australian, was second in 13miu 2sec. Lane led by a foot at halt way, but afterwards stopped several times. Rome, July 20. The earthquake alarmed tho Pope, who was having an afternoon siesta in his villa. He fled into the garden. Mount Etna, Sicily, is in violent eruption. Many churches iu Home are closed; numbers of the houses are injured, and many families homeless. St. Petersburg, July 21. Lieutenant Boismau, who was to the Czarewitcb, has committed suicide, owing to the Czar’s reproaches for allowing the Czarewitcb to cycle unattended. Amsterdam, July 21. At tho Peace Conference the British and American delegates voted in favour of the use of asphyxiating shells and expanding bullets. The representatives of all tho other Powers opposed. Trieste, July 21. Admiral Dewey, who has arrived here on his way to America from tho Philippines, on being interviewed, laughed at tho oaco Conference, and declared that America would certainly not disarm. She was at present building forty warships. Trieste, July 21. A successful experiment with wireless telegraphy was made between here and Venice, a distance of 70 miles. New York, July 20. In connection with tho Alaskan boundary difficulty between America and Canada, the New York Herald says that the American Government have decided not to withdraw one foot from the line fixed by America as tin, basis of the recent negotiations. By a fire in a grain elevator at Brooklyn a quarter of a million bushels of wheat were burned. * Ottawa, July 23. The Dominion House of Commons by' 77 to 41 rejected Sir Charles Tapper's resolution urging that efforts be made to secure preferential treatment of Canadian produce in English markets. Sir Wilfrid Laurier, in the course of a speech, said that Canada wns unable at present to dispense with taxation on British goods, but lie did not despair of eventually realising Mr Chamberlain’s idea of Imperial freotrade. Bombay, July 21. An injection of Professor Calm' tto’s serum cured a patient who was suffering from snakebite at Meerut. Bombay, July' 21. A British soldier at Allahabad was sentenced to IS months’ imprisonment and discharged the army with ignominy, for striking a coolie. Honolulu, July 21. Tho volcano Moana Loa is iu violent eruption.