MR O'SHAUGHNESSY'S APPOINTMENT TO GOVERNORSHIP OF QUEENSLAND UNCONFIRMED.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3722, 20 June 1883, Page 3

MR O'SHAUGHNESSY'S APPOINTMENT TO GOVERNORSHIP OF QUEENSLAND UNCONFIRMED.

PRICES STEADY AT THE WOOL

SALES

MOTION OF BREACH OF PRIVILEGE IN HOUSE OF COMMONS NEGATIVED.

REPORTED MASSACRE BY NATIVES

AT BORNEO DENIED

COLONIAL AGENTS-GENERAL URGING ANNEXATION OF NEW HEBRIDES.

SALE OF NEW ZEALAND FROZEN

MEAT IN LONDON.

DELIVERY OF HOMEWABD BRIN-

DISI MAILS.

THE WAR IN MADAGASCAR.—CAPTURE OF TAMATAVE BY THE FRENCH.

JEHAD, OR HOLY WAR, BEING

PREACHED IN EGYPT.

NATIVE TROUBLES IN THE TRANS-

VAAL.

LONDON-

June 18.

The report that Mr Eichard O'Shaughnessy has been appointed Governor of Queensland lias not received any official confirmation. The catalogue at to-day's wool auction comprised 11,200 bales. Prices were steady, but the demand was not active. June 19. Iv the House of Commons last nig-ht Sir Stafford 'Northcote moved that the Right Hon. John Bright be committed for a breach of privilege in the course of his recent address at Birmingham in accusing' tho Tories of being in alliance with Irish rebels. The motion, however, was rejected. Tho representatives in London of the North British Borneo Company have denied tho truth of tho report current yesterday regarding , the massacre of tho company's employees by the natives of the Island. The Agents-General of the various Australian colonies and New Zealand are strongly urging the annexation of the New Hebrides group by the Imperial Government. Tho difficulty in the way of canying the project into execution consists in an agreement between England and France to refrain from the annexation of islands in the Pacific. The cargo of frozen meat by the ship Lady Jocelyn from Wellington has arrived in good condition. The first portion of tho mutton was sold to-day, and realised 6id per pound. The homeward mails via Brindisi, from Melbourne on May 8, were delivered to-day. Intelligence has been roceived that the ultimatum submitted by the French commander has been rejected by the Malagasies, and that the French troops have

consequently advanced and captured Tamatavc. The Custom House there has been seized and occupied, and the Hovas have fled before the advancing troops. ■Telegrams are to hand reporting that an Egyptian Marabout is preaching a Jehad or Holy War in the south-west of Egypt. A Times despatch on the subject adds that the Egyptian Government has already desjiatched a body of troops to the locality to effect the capture of the Marabout and his followers.