CABLE NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 172, 26 June 1883, Page 3

CABLE NEWS.

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I (BY ELECTRIC TBLBGBAPH,— fdoPYWaHT;!)' j (.SFKOIAL TO trNfTEI) PiESS ASSbCliTioft.) ; . , London, June 22. Thfl Hon. Evelyn Ashley Has stated m the Honse of Commons that the Goyeinmont wi'l shortly lay on T the table a copy V 6f their despatch to the Government of Qaeensla d, m reply to Sir Arthur Kennedy's' despatches on the subject of therannexatiori of NevK Guinea. Lord Bay (sic.) has been offered the position of Envoy t<» the Transvaal. ?.' Ws -{Postma'steiH General F»yrcett:haß declined to extend to the colonies the ■ syaten) of parcels poßt, on <the ground that the conditions unier which such a; service Vfould have to be conducted I would prgy,ent;it t ]attain.inKy'tlie same success which had been attained m; Efigliindi^ , ;i V■ ;- r. V j& r- - v | The trial of Louise^ Michel, the well- | known female Communist, is causing; considerable : excitement m Paris, and \ rioting caused by, it has already com*. ; inenced. '[^ 'V. '-'•.'. ''■'"'! H "A rtillery t n*ii' made at Shoe'bury.neeß : Bhow;t&at no advantage wuld result' in '■ thecase oi* sucb guns as there are ill the \ colonies; adopting the Palltser jacfcetted ' » Tlj<» - Hon. . Evelyn; A sj^ley,; FJnailr>ecfeyary for the Cofonifs, has : m the PI ouHe of Commons^ < ! Cec ined to advise the "Go vernbir of New "' South Waleß : to increase the reward ofFered for " the discoTerJ,J»^th^e v Jfatef ;of "Li|B|Qnt and Youngi"''"'^ v " '*" "]'"' **' .iwllie cMdromgiiP.Qßtj vf,rit.mgrion, ( the subject of Pacific .annexation, expresses an opinion that' a_ British protectorate over, ,&% islands : will suffice , for the present. " ";'.[ .'" '■ ' ' ' " : * j