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Dunstan Times, Issue 1116, 21 September 1883, Page 3

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HOME AND EOREIGNLONDON, September JMjii The baiqno Kj)m<>iiy, which left' Weilington on May (ith for Newcastle, has been posted at Lloyd’s as missing. The pfrfdUoe markets are without quotable change. At to-day’s wool sales 11,700 hales were offered The tune of the sale is firm. Since the opening of the sales 17,?50 bales have been withdrawn.' The sales close on October 8 hj.

Lord Derby’s answer to the memo, from the Agents-gi neral on the subject of Pacific annexation is generally regarded as being unsatisfactory. It merely repeats the vague assurances formerly given by the Secretary for the Colonies September 14th. Mr Gladstone, who for-some time past has been yachting on the Scotch coast, has sailed for Norway. , ), ~,,

Dr Connelly, who, with his brother, was arrested at Limerick on August 22, charged with conspiracy to murder, has been committed for trial;

Information has been received from Gastein, in Austria, that Prince Bismarck is seriously ill. The Loch Dee, from Lyttelton, is overdue. i, ■ Dufferin has been recalled to Stamhoul by the Bulgarian difficulty. All the mortgages on Mi Parnell’s Irish estates havo hem paid off by public subscription-. The report that Lord Lyons was recalled proves incorrect. The French army has only met with a doubtful success at Anam, and now awaits reinforcements. September loth. An International exhibition at the Crystal Palace next April is projected, under the auspices of Mr Levey, but a larger scheme for an exhibition at Kensington is also on foot. The Standard considers the danger of a foreign convict establishment in the Pacific as sufficient to justify the attitude of the Colonies in regard to annexation, and condemns Lord Derby’-, despatch as cold, curt, and unsympathetic. The Colonies are only asking what is vitally, essential to their welfare, and this the Government-, with gratuitous unkindness refuses to give them, on account of political pedantry-. Alter the recent fighting in Anam, the French authorities beheaded 30 “Black Flag ” prisoners. The Times says if France prosecutes the Touqum campaign she will probably embroil herself with Europe. September 17 th. Nothing further has transpired re.arcing the negotiations which' are still proceeding for the settlement of the Franco-Chioese difficulty in 'ionquin. After t.hrir interview with Earl Granville the Marquis Tseng and M. Waddington left Windsor Castle for Paris, for the purpose, .it is believed, of carrying on negotiations ’ on the basis suggested ny the British Minister for Foreign Affairs. At a meeting of Land Leaguers' on Saturday at Carrick-on Shannon, which wa« attended by 50,000, a resolution was carried that the Irish people would never rest until they had a Parliament of their own. The contracts for the supply of provisions to the British troops stationed in Egypt are to be renewed for six months. N>ws is to hand that the' ship St. Leonards, bound to Wellington with emigrants, foundered in the Channel pfter collision with another vessel. All her pa.-sengers and crew have been landed at Dan mouth. O’Donnell, whin is charged with the murder ol James Carey, hss arrived at Plymouth an-l wIH shortly he placed on his trial-. The ill tated ship St. Leonards, which fimit. eredin the Cnamiel off Dartmouth, w is . hly a day out, having sailed on the li3i.lt inst. The vessel with which she came inio collision was the Cormorant. It is feared that the latter was severely injured, but nothing is definitely known regarding the extent of her injuries. The St. Leonards sank within a very short time after the collision with the Cormorant. The emigrants were not able to save anything. Vienna, September 13th. The Communist agitation in Croatia is increasing daily. A serious disturbance took place to-day at Jacobori z, when the troops fired upon the rioters and killed 15, besides wounding many others.