EUROPEAN NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 126, 4 May 1883, Page 2

EUROPEAN NEWS.

i ("Age Si»jEaiAr.s. J [united press -issociaticn. I ; London. Some days ago a clerk named Grey, employed m the Central Telegraph Office, : Dublin, suddenly disappeared, and no clue to his whereabouts was found until recently. It appears that he was seized by a body of Fenians and conveyed to a placa of confinement, where he was kept a close prisoner for (our days. During this period he was constantly questioned by the Fenians as regards the nature of the messages which' were transmitted through the Telegraph. Office. It was evident that

fiie captors thought Grny was the confidential clerk to whom was entrusted the duty of transmitting messages m connection with Irish outrages, and that consequently he possessed means of affording them valuable information. His story, however, is disbelieved, and ha has been suspended whilst an inquiryis being made. The annexation of New Guinea by the British Crown is bein? severely criticised by the Italian Press. They allege that the only results of- -the -r*r~ searches of Italians m New 9ainea has been to stimulate British enterprise and augment the desire of the British- colon.-. ist to extent the system of colonisation. They consider that Italy should havetaken action beiore this, for the'purpo3e of annexation; of the isl and, , ani ' Jthejfcondemn the apathy and inaction of the Italian Ministry inneglecting to secure such a desirable addition to tile tenitory. of the country. , ! \' i