CABLE NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 116, 24 April 1883, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

THE DYNAMITE FIENDS. THE ANNEXATION OF NEW GUINEA. OFFICIAL STATEMENT BY LORD DERBY. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. — COP FRIGHT. ) (special to united press association.) London, Aprii 20. The persons arrested as dynamiters are to be charged with treason and felony. Norman the approver, stat"B that (JaUawher threatened to blow up the Ho-ise of (Jornmons, and that Kingston, who was arrested at Bootle, near Liverpool, is the head of the inner circle of the Invincible Society. The Marseilles strike amongst the seamen and lumpers has been satisfactorily arranged. The Oriental Bank has accepted a charter similar m its terms to those of other colonial banks. The authorities have closed the University of Warsaw, m consequence of a serious revolt amongst the studen p s. M. Tirade, Minister of Finance, has submitted to the French Chamber of Deputies a schema for the conversion of the 5 per c«nfc. Rentes into new Be-* curities at 4^ per cent. ' Lord Derby has stated m Parliament that Mr Archer, U.M.G., Aq;enfcGeneral for Queensland, recently informed him that that colony desired to annex New Guinea. He (Lord Derby) bad written to the colony on the subject, and was much surprised to hear that the annexation had actually taken place. The Cabinet had neither prompted nor approved the action. The Brighton, a stuamor intended for Sydney, has run a trial trip and attained a speed of 15 knots. The recent telegrams published by the London Press from Australia, on the subject of the annexation of NVw Guinea, have caused the public to regard the action of Queensland more favourably.