EUROPEAN ITEMS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1294, 1 July 1884, Page 2

EUROPEAN ITEMS.

1 London. June 17. I * The private opinion, both of Earl I larnarvon and Lord Rosebery, is that I rar is inevitable between and I Sngland unless the- Recidiviste Bill is I bandoned. They are unable, however, I 0 convince EtSrl Derby, Secretary of State I or the Colonies, of the gravity of the I ituation. „ I V London, June 20. I 1 The NotttuMi Territory Land Company, j [he prospectus' of which was recently I issued, is now being floated. The shares I jbe, it is stated', being applied for freely. I ■ha proposed bapital of the Company is I K 1,000,000. ' • London, June 22. j Earl Rosebery i has postponed his motion I inrthe House oi Lords for the production j of®e official papers relative to the reoidi- I question until the 14th July. I Earl Derby, speaking at a banquet I given yesterday to Mr Thomas tArcher, I late Agent-General of Queensland, stated that Mr Mollwraith, ex-Premier of that colotly, had promised to support measures which the Australian Colonies might find it necessary to pass relative to excluding French criminals from Australia. : The representatives of the Australian Colonies in England have arranged to give a banquet to the Marquis of Normanby on , the 9th J uly. •