TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 3537, 20 January 1900, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN. London, Jan. 17. Newfoundland, for patriotic reasons, is willing to renew the modus vivendi hitherto existing with France in connection with the fisheries. London, Jan. 17. Obituary—Earl Man vers, aged 75 years ; Lord Lothian, aged 67 years. Paris, Jan. I<. The French naval programme for 1910 provides for 10 torpedo-catchers, 10 torpedo boats, and 34 submarine vessels. The Naval Department recommends the construction of more swift commerce destroying cruisers. _ , _ Pome, Jan. I<. Eio-ht persons were killed and thirty injured by the explosion of a dynamite factory near Turin. Lisbon, Jan. 18 The Portugese Foreign Minister has declared that Portugal will neither sell, cede, nor lease any portion of her colonies. New York, Jan. 17. A serious shooting affray occurred at a Kentucky Hotel. Mr Colson, ex-Congress man, a well-known Democrat got into a heated argument with Mr Scott, a prominent Republican, which ended in a resort to revolvers. Colson killed Scott find two bystanders, and wounded two others. AUSTRALIAN CABLE. Sydney, Jan. 16. The crew of the Carrizal wrecked on Baker’s Island has arrived. The Postmaster-General seems favourably disposed towards the Eastern Extension Company’s Cape Cable scheme, and is now considering whether it will interfere with the Pacific cable. Melbourne, Jan. 18 Two Hindoo hawkers have been arrested on suspicion of the murder of a settler’s wife in the Vince Wycheproof district. The body was found in a burning house. It is understood that the McArthur Forrest Cyanide Company are offering the Government their rights in the colony for .£20,000.