TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 3472, 29 July 1899, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN. London, July 25. Twenty visitors at the Inns of Court Hotel, High ’llolboru (tlie headquarters of the Australian cricket team in London), were taken ill after eating American preserved fruit. One visitor died. Luckily all the cricketers were absent from the hotel. Sailed,from Portsmouth, war-ship Lizard, for Sydney. The correspondent of the Times states that the Czar's alleged letter to Louis Napoleon is a clumsy forgery. The first-class battleship) Vengeance has been launched at Barrow-in-Furness. Bean, cashier at the Bank of Australasia pleaded guilty to embezzlement, and offered to make restitution. Sen tenco was deferred. July 20. In the House of Commons the Food and Brugs Adulteration Bill was read a third time. * London, July 20. The Catholic reformatory ship Clarence, stationed on the Mersey, which had 300 boys on board, has been burned. The boys escaped. Victorian exhibitors were awar’ed thirty-five diplomas of honour at the Greater Britain Exhibition, and six diplomas were awarded to Government exhibits. Mr Wardle, president of the Silk Association of England and Ireland, was so pieaseu with the Victorian silk exhibit that he offered if supplied with XOUlb of cocoons to convert them into marketable goods to test their commercial value. The Committee on old age pensions recommend that every needy deserving person 05 years old should be eligible for a minimum pension of 5s per week, to bo provided by rates and the Exchequer in eciual shares. Madrid, July 2(>. General Woyler, in the Senate, declared that a revolution in Spain was probable in order to regenerate the country. linesmans, July 20 The Antarctic exploring vessel, the Belgica, returns to Belgium in September. A MriiKRDAM, July 20 Ths Peace Conference, without modification, adopted the optional arbitration scheme, and resolved that Governments ought to study the possibility of limiting military and naval forces and war budgets Bo:,hiav, July 20 Owing to a partial failure of the monsoonal rains in Western India, a water famine is feared. Shanghai, July 20. The claim by Japan for a measure of financial control for organising China s army and navy is the chief obstacle in the way of an alliance being arranged. Washington, July 20. America has conceded to Franco “favoured nation” treatment in exchange fur a minimum tariff. Ottawa, July 20. The Bonjinion'Parliament endorsed the Pacific cable contribution. There is a prospect of Canada accepting an indefinite lease of a port on the tidewater of the Linn canal, an inlet in Alaska, America retaining the sovereignty. AUSTRALIAN CARLE.

Sydney, July 20. Tho Protestant meeting carried resolutions condemning Cardinal Moran’s action, emphatically expressing disbelief iu tho absence of proof of his charge against tho fairness and humanity of tho British naval authorities at Samoa ; aud demanding that ho should either substantiate his charges, or withdraw them as publicly and explicitly as ho made them. July 27. Cardinal Moran, iu a long letter to tho Daily Telegraph iu reply to statements at Tuesday’s demonstrations aud in review of the Protestant-mission to tho islands, says that any' statement ho made iu regard to the Protestant mission in tho Pacific was intended to set matters in a true light and unmask tho humbug aud exaggerated statements of missionary adventurers. Tu some cases words had been imputed to him which he did not uso. To sum up, he viewed tho whole of the Protestant missions as manifestly the work of man, not of God, and the main result is a nominal Christianity. f: ; vi>n ky, July -0 The Legislalive Assembly passed the Address-in-Rcply. Ihe Supply Bill was then introduced, aud an angry discussion followed, mainly on tho Auditor-General's report, which showed that the net deficit of the colony was .£3,093,000. Tho Treasurer explained that there was no deficiency’ of revenue and expenditure by the present Government; the deficit aioso from the sins of their predecessors. The House is still sitting, The Pendle Hill, bound from Newcastle to Napier, put in here owing to the death of Captain Morris, from pneumonia. Adelaide, July 20. Oscar Gerard, comedian of tho Bello of New York Company’ is dead. Perth, July 20. The Legislative Assembly has referred the Commonwealth Bill to a Committee of the two Houses,