AUSTRALIAN.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume IV, Issue 1012, 29 November 1883, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN.

fREOTEB’B TELEGRAMS —COPYRIGHT.] The Annexation Conference. Sydney, Yesterday. At the meeting of the Annexation Conference to-day, the Hon A. Stuart, Premier of New South Wales, was elected President. The discussion today was confined to preliminary measures. It has been decided that the Press shall not be admitted to the meetings of the delegates.

The Conference has decided to admit Governor Des Vceux as a representative of Fiji. His Excellency subsequently submitted a memo, in reference to the Pacific annexation. The Hon. W. R. Giblin, Premier of Tasmania, submitted a communication firom Mr Dudley Coote, Hawaiian Consul at Hobart, protesting against the annexation of the Pacific islands. The Hon. James Service, Premier, Victoria, will submit a series of resolutions on the subject of annexation in the Pacific to the Conference at a meeting tomorrow.

The Escapees. The five French escapees from New Caledonia, who arrived here in great distress, admit that they were convicted of felony. Shipping. Mel bourne. Yesterday. Arrived, this morning Union steamer Waihora, from the Bluff. Parliamentary Election. Mr F. Brown, barrister-at-law, has been returned to the Legislative Council for the North-eastern Province, the seat for which was rendered vacant by the death of the Hon. R. S. Anderson. The Markets.

The Melbourne Manager of the National Mortgage and Agency Company of New Zealand, Limited, reports of the local grain market as follows :—Shipping wheat is in fair demand at 4s $d to 4s 6d ; milling barley, 3s gd to 4s 3d ; prices nominal. New Zealand oats are in limited request, and prices are barely maintained; feeding, 2s lid to 3s id; milling do, 3s 2d to 3s 3d; New Zealand oats, under bond, 2s 2d to 2S 4d. [Received Nov. 29, 1.15 p.m.] Sydney, To-day.

The Conference resumed their sittings this morning. It is understood that the New South Wales and Queensland delegates are in favor of a resolution being passed confirming the annexation of New Guinea. Mr Service’s resolution on the subject of Pacific annexation is now under discussion by the Conference.