FOREIGN & COLONIAL. TELEGRAMS.

Timaru Herald, Volume LV, Issue 5523, 27 September 1892, Page 2

FOREIGN & COLONIAL. TELEGRAMS.

OABX.B. (pjib elbotbio tileßkafh — oo?yrigst.) (Pbb Pebss Association.) (Eeoaivea 10.20 a.m., September 26th.) THE EVIOXBD TENANTS. London, Sept. 26. At a meeting of the Evicted Tenants Association at Cork, a demand was made

for a quarter of a million to support teuanta in default of reinstatement. The speakers hinted at the danger of civil war unless the demand was acceded to. (Eecolved 10.35 a.m, Sept. 26th.) A ROYAL MARRIAGE. The marriage of Prince Ferdinand of Roumania and Princess Marie of Edinburgh will lake place on January 10th, at Ligmaringan, on the Upper Danube. THE SEIZURE OF ENGLISH SEALERS. An English man-of-war has been ordered to "Vladivistock to enquire into the circumstances attending the seizure of English sealers. PORTUGUESE TEADE. Lisbon, Sept. 26. The Portuguese Government have modified the duties in the hope that trade will benefit by the reduction. TBE TRANSVAAL COINAGE. Capetown, Sept. 25. A conference is to be held at Protoria in November to discuss the question of allowing the Transvaal coinage to circulate through South Africa generally. (Special to Pbb&s Association.) (Eeoeived 10.50 a.m., September 27th.) MR GLADSTONE AND THE DUKE OP ARGYLE. London, Sept. 25. Mr Gladstone haß an article in the North American Review in reply to the Duke of Argyle. He ridicules the idea that the British would allow the Iriah to oppress the minority, and points out that England retains the power vested in the old Iriah Parliament. If the Duke is right, contends Mr Gladstone, the Irish would not be a human people at all, but a, combination of the brute and the demon. The analogy drawn between the relations of the white people and the negroes in the United States is erroneous. MILDURA. San Francisco, Sept. 25. A company of Californian fruit growers have taken up three thousand acres at the irrigation settlement of Mildura. in Victoria. PORTUGUESE AFRICA. Lisbon, Sept. 25. A syndicate have made an offer to expend £15,000,000 on railways and harbour works in Portuguese Africa. GREAT DISTRESS. Hong Kong, Sept. 25. The Yellow River has overflowed its banks and inundated twelve towns, causing great distress. (Raßßivea 10.55 a.m., September 25th.) THE REPUBLIC. Pakis, Sept. 25. M. Floquet, in the course of a patriotic speech, said that the Republic had bafied all attacks, and only required time to accomplish social reforms and complete the work of revolution. REPORTED SEIZURE OF SEALERS. London, Sept. 25. It is reported that the Russians have seized four sealers and taken them to Vladivistock. THE BLACK MOUNTAIN EXPEDITION. Calcutta, Sept. 25. Hassim Ali, the Black Mountain chieftain, is discuning terms of surrender with General Lockhart, the British commander. If he makes a reasonable offer the expedition will not start. DISLOYAL STUDENTS. COHSTANTINOPI.E, Sept. 25. In connection with the deportation of students from this city, it is alleged that they were suspected of complicity in plots against the Sultan. A FATAL PANIC. New Yobk, Sept. 25. A cry of fire caused a panio in a synagogue. Twelve hundred women rusbedi for the stairs, and in the crush that ensued four of the women were trampled to death. A DISASTROUS QUARREL. Paris, Sept. 25. A Spaniah painter named Pedro/ resident in Paris, had a quarrel with his wife, whom he accused of adultery. The result was that he killed her and her mother, and fatally injured his brother-in-law. (Received 11.10 a.m., September 26t!i.) THE INDIAN CONGRESS. London, Sept. 25. Mr D. Naorogi, M.P. for Finsbury, has been invited to preside at the Indian Congress. POLITICAL PRISONERS. The Dublin Express betieves that the majority of political prisoners will bfe released before Christmas. GREAT BRITAIN AND HER . COLONIES. The Saturday Review says that it will be futile to await the concurrence of tha colonies in a| commercial unioa favouring Great Britain. ANOTHER INSULT TO TBE COLONIES. A correspondent writing to the Times declares that mob rule governs Australia. ECONOMISING. Calcutta, Sept. 25. Owing to the deficit economy in military expenditure is being insisted on in India. AN ABSURDITY OF WOMEN 1 SUFFRAGE. Wasbibotow, Sept. 25. The supporters of women's suffrage in the United States have nominated Mrs Victoria Woodhull for the Presidency. THE RAVAGES OF A TYPHOONHong Kong, Sept. 25. A typhoon swept the Foo Choo Island?, causing frightful damage. Five thotaandv buildings and sixty junks were destroyed. A vast qnantity of crops was swept away, and many people killed. The heathen in their Viiadnejj bow down to wood and atone. . After they have been, converted they learn to worihip gold.