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Ashburton Guardian, Volume IV, Issue 851, 25 January 1883, Page 2

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[rbuxer’s telegrams—copyright.} , „ Obituary. , London, Jan. 23. The death is announced to-day ot Gustave Dord, the well-known French > artist, aged fifty-one.

Sir William Fox on Native Affairs. At a meeting of the Colonial Instl*,' tute last night- a paper by Sir William . Fox on New Zealand affairs was It deplored the impolicy of the prcK' 1 raises made to the Maoris in the treaty of Waitangi, and entered at length inttw the Native question from the foundatioal of the colony to the present time. The.;f paper justified the confiscation of_ Na-' tive lands as a punishment for rebel-** lion and as a necessary security for ‘life*? and preservation of peace. , Monetary and Commercial.. '77 London, Jan. 24. . „ Consols to-day are quoted at too *4 t \ being a further advance of There a is no change to report in the money i market or in the markets for colonial** breadstuff's and tallow. The Mails. The mails per Orient steamshipf Potosi via Naples from Melbourne, DqJTj cember 6th, were delivered here toj ’ day. [Received Jan. 25, 2 p.m.] The Bank of Australasia. London, Jan. 24, evening. .. At a meeting of shareholders in the Bank of Australasia to-day, a ballot wastaken on the proposal ot the Board to * increase the capital by the issue of nesf; shares to the amount of L. 400,000. A ‘ scrutiny showed that the majority of the shareholders were in favor of the increase of capital. [Received Jan. 24, 2.40 p.m.] ft. Punishment of Land Leaguers* ■ Mr T. M. Healey, M.P. for Wear, ford, Michael Davitt, and Quin, leadersof the Irish National League, who were summoned last month for making seditious speeches, have been again brought ) up for trial. The case closed and the defendants were : required to find heavy bail that they would keep the peace or undergo six months’ prisoment each. “ Election iu Ireland.

The election for the vacancy in the* representation of Mallow, Ireland, 'ini the, House of Commons, took place day, and resulted in the return of O’Brien, the Nationalist candidate, who, defeated the other candidate, an avowed Government supporter, by a considerable majority, The Bonapartists in France. 1 ' , ■ Paris, Jan. 23;

This evening a Committee has been elected by the Chamber of Deputies to consider a Bill introduced by. the Minister of the Interior to provide? measures to prevent the issue of Bonapartist manifestos. A majority of the members of the Committee are in favor; of the immediate expulsion of the members of the Bonaparte family from France. It is understood that there is ; a discussion in the Cabinet as to course which should be pursued inr dealing with the Bonapartist question.

Paris, Jan. 24

The Bonapartist agitation is causing considerable disquiet throughout France at the present time, and the uneasy feeling is increasing. The ex-Empress of the French; Paris, Jan. 24

The ex-Erapress Eugenie has sue.: ceeded in re-uniting the Bonapartist party, and she returned to London to* day.

Oetewayo. Capetown, Jan. 24.

Intelligence is to hand, from Zulu* land that Cetewayo has arrived iq Ulundi, and that the ceremony of r$- ‘ instatment will take place immediately.