NEWS FROM THE VAGABOND.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3775, 21 August 1883, Page 3

NEWS FROM THE VAGABOND.

MELBOURNE.

THE ANNEXATION CONFERENCE. UNIVERSAL SORROW EXPRESSED FOR, ARCHBISHOP VAUGHAN'S DEATH. PROPOSALFORHOLDING COLONIAL EXHIBITION IN LONDON REJECTED. MR STOUT IN SYDNEY.

Monday. Tho Vagabond writes to tho Argus from the Islands that 11. M. schooner Dark recently landed a party at Ambryor to attack a village in the locality of the scene of tho murder of Captain Belbin. The Vagabond also asserts that a lieutenant of the French war ship Dcstrces recently bought tho Island of Iririki. The transaction was nominally a private one, but was really on behalf of the French Government.

Mr Service has telegraphed to the Government of Now Zealand asking when they will be able to reply to the invitation to join in the Annexation Conference. Meanwhile the convention is at a standstill, and the Argus urges that it is important no time should be lost in view of French activity in the Pacific. The Tasmania Government has agreed to send a delegate to the Annexation Conference. New Zealand is now the only colony from which no reply has been received. The Catholics of this colony express universal regret at the death of Archbishop Vaughan, and mourning is now worn by many members of the Romish Church. This day. The Chamber of Manufactures has passed a resolution rejecting Mr Twopenny's proposal in favor of holding a colonial exhibition in London, but at the same time thanking him for his suggestion.