EUROPEAN NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 56, 4 February 1884, Page 3

EUROPEAN NEWS.

(age specials.) (united press association.) London, January 22, Nothing definite will be done with respect to the proposed annexation of New Guinea until after the arrival of despatches from thfi An-iralinn Government with respect to the decisions arrived at by the Auslinlinn Cunveni tion -which met m Sydney. The resolutions passed by the Convention, and which have been cabled to London,' however, are regarded as of great importance, and must carry weight with the Imperial authorities m dealing with the question. The death is announced of Lord Grosvenor, member of Flintshire, and Secretary to the Treasury, at the comparatively early age of 47. The French authorises ha* ; e promised to give full warning to the natives of neutral nations resident m China before making any attack on the Chinese. It is hoped that the suspension of Messrs Young and Larks, .merchants, 0 Capthall Buildings, E.C., soft goods warehousemen of Sydney, with liabili ties amounting to £208,000, will be of only a temporary character. It is probabje that the creditors will grant the firm time to meet their liabilities, as the colonial assets a*e expected to cover the debts. January 38. A subsequent examination of tenders received for the Victorian loan shows the average is £100 3s. Caibo, Januaiy 21. Baker Pasha has been carrying on negotiations with a number of Arab Sheiks, who have shown themselves favourable to the preventions ol Mahdi, and the result ot his efforts has been so tar successful that several of them llftVP given m their submission to the JSgypr tian authority.