CORRESPONDENCE ON REFUSAL OF VICTORIA TO ALLOW IRISH INFORMERS TO LAND.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3827, 22 October 1883, Page 3

CORRESPONDENCE ON REFUSAL OF VICTORIA TO ALLOW IRISH INFORMERS TO LAND.

BRITISH IN MADAGASCAR SE VERELY TREATED BY FRENCH.

SALE OF GIPPSLAND HOPS IN

LONDON

THE PACIFIC LABOR TRAFFIC

ADMIRAL TO COMMAND BRITISH

SQUADRON IN PACIFIC

FIGHT BETAVEEN AUSTRIAN AND

ROUMANIAN SOLDIERS,

ENGLAND AND FRANCE UPHOLD NEUTRALITY ot NEAV HEBRIDES.

THE INSURRECTION IN HAYTI.— REVOLUTIONISTS FIRE ON BRITISH STEAMER.

LONDON. October 10. Mr Dicey publishes another letter in the Times in reply to that of Mr Murray Smith in relation to the refusal of the Victorian Government to allow the disembarkation of the Irish informers. Mr Dicey replies at lensrth to the arguments brought forward by Mr' Smith in support of the Government, and asserts that he retains the views previously expressed by him on the subject. He repeats that the Victorian Government have placed themselves in a serious position by their action, and adds that _to protect them from the consequences it will be necessary for the Imperial Government to pass an Act of Indemnity. Tho Times discusses the subject in a leading article, and joins with Mr Dicey in condemning the A r ictorian Government"for their rejection of the informers, and asserts that the high-handed action of Mr Service will seriously affect the Imperial Government in carrying out their Irish policy, as it will increase the difficulty of punishing crime in Ireland. Tho Times this morning discusses the policy of the Victorian Coalition Ministry, and expresses its warmest approbation of their determination to abolish political patronage in tho Government service. Advices from Madagascar show that tho British residents at Tamatave arc complaining bitterly- of the severity practised t>}- the French authorities at that place. A sale of Gippsland hops from tho Tambo estate has been effected at £4 per cwt. October 11. Lord Derby has officially directed the attention of the authorities of Queensland and Fiji to the statement supplied to the Age by Mr Morrison on the subject of the native labor traffic. An increase is about to be made in the number of ships on the Australian naval station, and Commodore Erskine, who is now in command of the station, will be superseded by an Admiral. A body of Austrian regular troops have had a sevcro engagement with some Roumanian forces. Ultimately _ sixty Roumanians, who were defending disputed territory, were captured. An Imperial Blue Book issued yesterday confirms the statement made by Lord Granville in tho House of Lords sometime ago, to the effect that both England and France would uphold the neutrality of tho New Hebrides, and that neither power would seek to annex the territory. The revolution which originated recently among the black population of Port au Prince, the capital of Hayti, one of the largest islands in the AVcst Indies, has assumed alarming proportions. The revolutionists havo destroyed the Government aud seized on the forts. They then proceeded to fire on a British steamer which was conveying the British consul and a number of European refugees from the island. [Special to Press Association.]