TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 3711, 9 March 1901, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

i,Xlii,iS!L AND KOKKIGN

London, March. 7 A citizens' committee, approved by the King’, for the purpose of considering the proposals for a memuii.il to the late Queen, recommended that a statue shall be the chief feature of the memorial, to be erected near Westminster Abbey or Buckingham Palace.

Power has been given to the Duke of York to confer Knighthoods during his Empire tour. Justice Day, at the Bristol Assizes, sentenced David Aliport, an insurance agent, formerly a lay evangelist, to 15 years’ penal servitude, and Louis Chappol to five years, for attempting to murder A llport’a children The evidence disclosed an attempt to ttarvo the children to death with the object of drawing the insurance money on their lives.

The Ilay-Pauncefote treaty in'regard to the Nicaraguan Canal has lapsed. The battleships Albemarle and Montague, and the first class cruiser Drake, have been launched. There are four hundred cases of smallpox in Glasgow, and so far 157 deaths. The Glowers of Leonid meteors were seen during the night of November Itith last at Hudson’s Bay; lasted till daylight, and passed northwards of the Arctic circle. Berlin, March 5.

The Naval Budget Committee’s report has been presented to the Reichstag. It states that Krupp’s and Stamm’s monopoly of armour plates costs the German navy 3,C3O,CC'J marks annually over the cost of similar plates manufactured in America from Krupp’s and Stumm’s patents, and that the monopoly involved a loss of GO.OCJ.OCO marks upon the recent naval programme. The committee recommended the establishment of Government works for the manufactures of armour plates. March G. In the Reichstag, Count von Bulow, in reply to questions about the Kaiser’s visit tc England, said “ Wo will live in peace with England, but practical politics dependent upon reciprocity in foreign politics will not be affected by dynastic considerations or ties of relationship.” While the Kaiser was driving from Rathskeller-Bremer to the railway station at Dietrich, a workman named Weiland threw a piece of iron and slightly injured t he, Kaisrr's cheek. Welland is subjects to fits of epilepsy, and gives confused answers when questioned. The Kaiser’s journey was not interrupted by the incident.

Vienna, March G. There was a stormy scene in the Austrian Reichsrath. Kerr Eresbul, a member of tho Radical Czech Party, when forbidden to speak, approached tho Presidents scat; snatched and destroyed the document ho was reading. A group of the Pangermau Party boat Fresqul, but the Czechs rescued him after a free fight.

Ottawa, March 6. The Canadian House of Commons unanimously voted live-eighteenths of tho cost of the Pacific cable. Mr Mnlock, Post-master-General, referred to the New South Wales couce=Auu to the Eastern Extension Company, and said that it was too iate for Canada lo recede, inasmuch as a contract has been signed providing for the construction of the Pacific cable.

Washington, March 5. The inaugural preparations for the reswearing of President McKinley cost .£500,000 Washington was never so brilliantly decorated. The pillars of the Court of Honour supported vases of inceuso. The enthusiasm was boundless. Unfortunately the Ambassadors were denied the usual precedence, which was given to members of the Supreme Court. At the last moment the seats were rearranged for representatives of foreign nations holding the rank of Ambassador and the Supreme Court. The rearrangement did not apply to representatives whose rank was that of Minister. The Earl of Minto, the Governor-General of Canada, was invited, and applied for leave of absence, but the application was refused. There were ten thousand invitations issued for the ball at night. Cuban and Philippine flowers were conspicuous among the decorations. AUSTRALIAN CABLES. Svdnev, March 6. Sir W. Lyne states that New South Wales cannot now withdraw from the Eastern Extension Cable Company’s agreement, nor does it wish to. A verdict of manslaughter was returned against Mrs Cobcrol't, and she was recommended to mercy on the ground of great provocation. An application to attach certain boossellers for publishing a pamphlet on the Coniughara divorce suit was ordered to stand over, the sale of the pamphlet having been stopped and a promise given not to issue more till the case is finally disposed of. The Aorangi’s passengers for New Zealand are Miss Hanks, Messrs Torrance, Caudel, Callaghan and Bagdahrian. The Mnnapouii from the Islands reports that 11 M.S. Tauranga, with the High Commissioner, has been at Tonga with the object of exchanging with the King the ratification of the treaty negotiated by Mr Basil Thompson last year. March 7. The Sydenham inquest is proceeding. A mass of evidence is being taken regarding tlie condition of the line, much of it centring round the dinted rail which was removed after the accident. Some witnesses bold that it caused the derailment, whilst experts declare that the dint was made by the engine after it was derailed. Melbourne, March 7. The capital sentence on Nash for the murder of his wife, has been commuted to imprisonment for life. The Wesleyan Conference decided that the President on future official occasions bo robed like an English bishop, excepting that the robe shall not have lawn sleevEs.