CABLE NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 11, 11 December 1883, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

The Press on AnnexationMr Child ers and the Colonial Empire. Tranquility m Ireland-Anglo-Spanish Treaty. Admiral for the Australian Station. (BY BIiKCTBIC TELEGRAPH. — COPYRIGHT.) (special to united pbsss association.) London, December 8. J . The Times says that if tha Austra- j Han Colonies agree to federate, the annexation problem will be more than half solved. The Standard says that the colonies having limited their demands to certain Facitic Islands, they snoiild insist that over the remainder England should maintain the police of the Pacific, with a. right to exclude all disturbing elements. The Morning Advertiser strongly supports the decision arrived at by the Conference. : The Spectator says that the proposals of the Conference are such as to startle Lord Derby, and even try the nerve of Parliament, but they are reasonable, and if a strong Australasian federation is established, England must , annex New Guinea and compel France to respect the New Hebrides. , It is tha destiny of Australia to rule the Pacific. ,; : It is reported that England has seized an island near the eastern? ter- ; minus of the Panama Canal. j;- - The Times .speaks m commendatory terms of Rusden's History of Australia. The Right Hon. H. E. Cbiiders, m his speech at Knottingley, said that the Colonial Empire must necessarily expand, but. its statesmen must wisely regulate the measure of expansion. The French Chamber of Deputies is indignant at the critical relations existing with China having been concealed from it. Five thousand of the Soudan rebel* are reported to be m the neighborhood of Tenaar. A mob have destroyed a ch&pel at Caflton. Mr* Tre'velyan, . Chief Secretary for Ireland, states that the reports received from the County Magistracy are that . rentes ,aro nO™ being paid, and that the system of boycotting is being discontinued. • . ' A treaty witji %am is probable. The Italian G-ove"Mimenthkve agreed, to allow the ; Australian mails to be landed at Biindisi. Money is steadily . hardening. The details of the treaty with Spain have been made knovvh. . On condition of being treated on a par with' the most 'favored nation, * Englands consents to admit Spanish wines, not exceeding thirty degrees of strength, at a shilling duty. , '■■■.■ The Pall Mall Gazette hopes that Mr Childers will not infuse into his col' leagne, Lord Derby, some of his own | spirit of sympathy with the demands of J the Australian colonies. After the next reliefs, ad Admiral will be appointed to command the Australian station. The Economist thinks it unwise to proclaim, such a doctrine when Atistralia is unable to hold Pacific against aggression. England, however, is bound to prevent France carrying out its proposal to ship Recidivistea there. An Australian grillroom : has been established at the Crystal Palace Ex\ hibitioni / -