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Ashburton Guardian, Volume IV, Issue 971, 16 June 1883, Page 2

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[reuteb’s .TEX bo BAMS — -copy RIGHT. 3 -/i An Irish Constituency. . . , London, June 15. Mr T. M/ Healy, M. P. for ’ Wexford, has resigned in the House of Commons, and announced his intention of contesting the vacancy for Monaghan. It is expected that a severe struggle will ensue between the candidates. ■ A Commercial Treaty. Negotiations which have been proceeding for' some time for an AngloItalian commercial treaty have been brought to a satisfactory conclusion, and the treaty was signed yesterday. [Received June 16, 1.15 p.m.] English Control in South Africa. London, June 16. A despatch has been published, in which Earl Derby, Secretary of State for the Colonies, announces that owing to the withdrawal of Cape Colony fron/ the administration of affairs in Basutoland, the English Government has resumed the control of that province, under certain conations, which will be imposed on the native tribes. It now transpires that the English envoy, who was about to proceed ta the Transvaal, will o.pen negotiations with the Boer Government for a reyisipn of- the Transvaal corivention, under which tfye country was retroceded to the Boers'" 1 The Now Guinea Annexation. In the House of Commons to-day, the Hbh Evfclyn Secretary for the Colonies, in reply to a question, stated ..that.: despatches. had i now been received from the Queensland - Government, urging the annexation of New Guinea, but that the GqvempJent had fnbt'yel arrived at J A'final'dedilibh on the subject. Left his ; Post. ’ Capetown, June 15. Intelligence is to hand that the British Resident in Zululand has resigned his position.