THE TORPEDO BOATS FOR NEW ZEALAND.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3886, 3 January 1884, Page 3

THE TORPEDO BOATS FOR NEW ZEALAND.

TRIAL TRIP OF THE RUAPEHU.

THE DUTIES ON COLONIAL WINES. FRENCH NAVAL REINFORCEMENTS FOR THE PACIFIC. MASSACRE OF CHILDREN IN AS II AN TEE. LORD CARNARVON ON ANNEXATION. LONDON. December 27. Two of the torpedo boats for New Zealand will bo shipped by the ship Lyttclton, which leaves early in January. December 2S. The New Zealand Shipping Company's new steamer liuapohu made 15 knots on lieu trial trip. The Agents-General intend to request an assurance from the Chancellor of the Exchequer that the recent concession made to Spain in respect to wino duties will also be extended to wines the growth of tho colonies. December 29. Tho French Government is making preparations for tho despatch of large reinforcements of their ileet in the Pacific. There have been frequent meetings of tho committee- of the Senate on the Recidiviste Bill. News has been received of the massaero of (33 of King Coffee's children. In the grain market sales have been made of the Adelaide and Victorian new crops for largo cargoes of February shipment. Buyers offer lls for recent arrivals. New Zealand wheat of good quality realises from '10s to 425.

The Daily News commends the proposals of the late Conference to ensure the protection of tho lands of the natives of Now Guinea. Lord Carnarvon, writing in the Contemporary Review, thinks it would bo impolitic of England to insist on tho application of the complete Munro doctrine in the Pacific, and that it might bo possible with the concurrence of France to secure

the complete neutrality of the Now Hebrides, but that it is unlikely that France will consent to abandon tho penal settlement scheme under external pressure from the present insufficient efforts to secure complete Australasian federation. The Pacific squadron is also too weak, and he expresses a hope that tho Imperial Government will find itself ablo to concede most of what the Conference has demanded. It would be sufficient to annex the coast of New Guinea without interfering with the interior of that country.