LATE EUROPEAN NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 172, 26 June 1883, Page 2

LATE EUROPE AN NEWS.

(Per Waihora, At The Bluff.)

(age specials.) ( united press association-.) London, June 12. The Jane Coir, a Paris paper, has an article this morning insisting on the rights or France to the New Hebrides, and urging that any attempts at annexation by the colonies 6honld be resisted. It is stated by several leading Lon» don newspapers that the English (Jovernment will not allow Victoria to annex the New Herbrides. It is also reported t\ at an agreement has ben made between England and France that neither country sboald take possession of the Is ands. At a conference recently held ot Methodist 'Mew Convection, it was decided to continue missions m outlying portions of ttie Australian colonies. The Duke ot Cambridge has given evidence before the Commission ap— l pointed to report on the proposed Ohan~ I nel tunnel. He condemns the undertaking from a military point of view. The Suez Canal Company have decided to construct a fecond canal, parallel with the one now m use, across the Isthmus of iSnez. Plans are being prepared whereby it shall be lighted at night by electricity. , Thirty passengers by the English steamer Bellona hare been seized by a party of brigands while on shore at Keiluk, a sea-coast town m Asia Minor, and carried into the interior. -■- June 14. An article on Victoria m the Pall Mall Gazette to-day unfavourably criticises the low minimum fixed for ths £2,000,000 Victorian redemption loan , and also comments adversely on the effects that the annexation of the New | tierbrides will have on the colonies. The St. James Gazette to-day has an article on colonial defence. The ac- \ tivity of. the colonies providing meaus for defence is warmly praised. The Prince of Wales and Dukes Connaught and Albany v ted with the majority for second reading of the marriage with a Deceased Wife's Sister Bill. .N early the whole of the prelates of the House of Lords were with the minority, who opposed it. It is probable that distinct juries will not be appointed for the colonies, v- The Amsterdam Exhibition exhibits will, it is seated, be divided ia classes, and there will baa jury for each sectioa. Several orders have recently been received from the colonies - by Sir Wm. Armstrong, for heavy guns to be on batteries mounted recently constructed.