LONDON.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 4085, 25 August 1884, Page 3

LONDON.

August 13. Some recent despatches from Mr. Romilly, late Deputy High Commissioner for the Western Pacific, have been published. He denounces the late traffic between Queensland and the Pacific Islands, and deprecates tho visits of exploring parties to New Guinea as injurious to the natives. The Times this morning contains an article advocating the establishment of a protectorate over a portion of New Guinea and the adjacent islands, and which strongly approves of the scheme proposed by the British Government. The German press contains some very hostile allusions to England and its colonies' policy. The papers attack the policy ofthe British Government in the Cape, Africa, Australia, and the Western Pacific, and protests strongly against the proposed establishment of a British protectorate over New Guinea. August 16. In political circles it is considered probable that Major-General Seratchley will be appointed ' British Commissioner under the proposed protectorate for New Guinea. Tho news of the defeat of Hanlan, the Canadian sculler, by Beach at Sydney, has excited the greatest astonishment throughout England and America. In both countries it is generally believed that Hankin's unexpected defeat must have been the result of some accident. [Special to Press Association.]