THE ENGLISH PRESS ON ANNEXATION AND FEDERATION.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3853, 22 November 1883, Page 3

THE ENGLISH PRESS ON ANNEXATION AND FEDERATION.

LONDON.

DEATH OF BARON OVERSTONE

RUPTURE IN NEW GUINEA EX-

PEDITION

LAUNCH OF ANOTHER NEAV ZEA-

LAND STEAMER

November 10. The Morning Post says that Lord Derby's replies to Mr Murray Smith on the question of annexation are unsatisfactory and evasive, severely testing the loyalty of the colonists The Standard considers that Lord Derby's latest communications imply a favorable change in the views of the Government. Tho Marquis Tseng states that 40,000 regular troops with European officers are within easy marching distance of the French forces. Obituary—Samuel Jones Lloyd (Baron Ovor.->tone), long the head of the late banking firm of Jones Lloyd and Co., London, aged 87. A rupture has occurred between General Mclvor and his colleague, Captain Kennelly, and the latter is organising a new expedition to sail under a foreign Hag. The St. James' Gazette considers that Lord Derby has made a distinct advance iv his late replies, while the Gi-lobe fears that the shadow of a disintegration of the Empire lurks behind the idea of Australasian federation. . Tho third of the New Zealand Shipping Company's steamers has been launched on the Clyde, and named the Ruapehu. The rumors as to the destruction of Hicks Pasha's army iv the Soudan are not confirmed as yet.

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