CABLE NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 106, 19 May 1883, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

Special to " Star." [by e__ctbic telegraph. — copybight. l beutkh's telegamks. London, May 18. The Special Commission for the trial of the Phoenix Park prisoners has now closed. The Aborigines Protection Society have written a letter to Earl Derby, Secretary of State for the Colonies, regarding the projected annexation of New Guinea. The Society urges that the island should be annexed by Great Britain as a Crown colony. H.R.H. the Duke of Edinburgh and Lord Wolesley have left London for Moscow to attend the coronation of the Czar on Sunday, the *7th instant. The Usibupu, under Oham, have given battle to Cetewayo and defeated him, inflicting a loss of six thousand men. The new constitution confers universal suffrage on the Egyptian population over twenty years of age. The Land Leaguers are dismayed at the Pope's circular. Mr Seeton, M.P , contends it does not apply to the laity. The Agent-General for Queensland, Mr Archer, in a letter to the Times, denies that the colony has any desire to enslave the Papuan inhabitants of New Guinea under any form of labor traffic. An infernal machine has been discovered at Ballina, and six men have been arrested in connection with the discovery. Received May 19. 12.30 p.m.] St. Petebsbubg, May 18. Several officers of the Imperial Guard of this city have been arrested, charged with being members of a Secret Revolution Club.