TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 3471, 27 July 1899, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN. London, July 24. The new cold stores erected at Manchester for the Colonial Consignment Company were opened by the Lord Mayor. Among those present were Messrs J. G. Ward and Nelson. Mr Goschen, referring to his offer to refrain from the projected expansion of the Navy if Russia would also refrain, stated that as Russia had come to no decision on the matter, he was no longer justified in deferring the British programme. Nows from the Solent states that two more deaths have accurred as a result oi the explosion on the Bullfinch. Obituary—Colonel Ingersoll. Wireless telegrams were exchange 1 with the fleet during the manoeuvres over a distance of 30 miles. General Booth has opened a monster Salvation Army exhibition in London. He bad an immense ovation. London, July 25. A remarkable automobile car race has taken place. A sixteen-horse power machine covered 1423 miles in 44 hours 44 minutes. Fifty children were poisoned at a school treat, at Greenwich, but recovered. Mr Lasker has accepted Mr Janowski’s challenge to play for the chess championship of the world and A UK) a side. The sitting of the Anglo-American Commission to settle the Alaskan dispute has been indefinitely postponed. Direct negotiations between the two Governments on the subject are proceeding. In the New Zealand case Wastneya v. Wastneys, the petition to rescind leave to appeal was refused with costs. Berlin, July 25. An alarming accident has occurred here. Forty persons were leaning on the wire railings of a cycle track when they were struck by lightning. Three were killed and 20 injured. Pakis, July 24. The French authorities expelled the Marquis Cerralbo, one of the leaders of the Spanish Carlists, from St Jean de Luz, in the passes of the Pyrenees Department. Vienna, July 24. An explosion on the Austrian torpedo vessel Adler killed five of the crew. St. Petersburg, July 25. Mr Steens, a Russian electrician, claims to have discovered a method of telegraphing from London to New York without wires. Crete, July 2o The British flag has been lowered at Candia, the local Government now having assumed control of the island. Home, July 25. The Premier has directed the Courts to enforce a drastic public Bill, though Parliament had not sanctioned the measure, declaring it to he essential to counteract the Socialists. Amsterdam, July 24. The Arbitration Committee has adopted a scheme for submission to the Peace Conference. SHANGHAI, July 24 A Chinese mission, nominally with a commercial intent, has been sent to Japan empowered to discuss the question of an alliance. Li Hung Chang opposes the movement. Washington, July 23. Reuter’s agency states that an Italian at Louisiana shot an American doctor whosefriends lynched the Italian and five of his friends. Mr Hay expressed to the Italian Government that the lynching of Italians was in revenge for the shooting of an American doctor in Louisiana. Ottawa, July 24. Sir Charles Tupper strongly condemned America delaying the settlement of the Alaskan boundary dispute. Sir W. Laurier said the Canadian case was impregnable and should be maintained. He urged patience, and hoped to refer the question to arbitration. Capetown, July 22. Mr Cecil Rhodes deprecates the proposals of the Council of the British South-Afriean Chartered Company to tax Cape products entering Rhodesia. Cairo, July 23. A reconnaissance of Egyptian troops ascertained that the Khalifa is in desperate straits for food and ammunition. He has very few followers. AUSTRALIAN CABLE. Sydney, July 25 The steamer Pilbarra, from Western Australian ports to Sydney, arrived with her cargo on fire. The fire was discovered in the forward hold when off Woollongong. The hatches were battened down and on the vessel reaching the wharf firemen quickly subdued the fire. Considerable damage was done by fire and water—to the extent of about ,£IOOO. In reference to the recent volcanic eruption. Professor David, of the University, regards it as an important fact that Ngaruahoo should be in eruption coincidental with Mauna Loa, Hawaii. As the Tarawera explosion travelled on a definite line passing through the Kermadecs, Tonga, and eventually reaching Samoa, it was probable, therefore, that this volcanic zone continued in the direction of Hawaii, and the fact that this zone being so nearly antipodal to Etna and Vesuvius, might later on prove an important bearing on volcanic phenomena in general. The Court-martial exonerated the commander of tho Pylades in connection witn the recent stranding of that vessel. There was a tremendous Protestant demonstration at the Town Hall to-night as a protest against Cardinal Moran’s recent charges against the missionaries at Samoa.