LATE CABLE NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 37, 14 January 1885, Page 2

LATE CABLE NEWS.

(Per 8.8. Rotomahana at the Blaff.) ? ; (age specials. (united pkess association.) London, Dec. 31. The report that Earl Derby is to be replaced ia the Cabinet is declared to b« unfounded. Jan 1. It has been arranged thaMherPHnceM Beatrice shall reside Her Majesty the Queen uniil her marriage with Prince Henry Maurice of Battenburg.- . Both the Pairmtl "GaTetie "anTth* Morning Post protest against the cession of the New Hebrides to France. .., The excitement" over the recent annexation m the Pacific %r^erm^y is now subsiding, and the Press advise the Australian- colonies' tb be moderate ia any protest which they may make to the Iniperfol Government 66 the Subject. ' 'Jan. 2. The members of the Cabinet have been specially smmnoßedjjat-theTMmest of Earl Derby, to consider? the ifrhole of annexation : m, tKPacifio. 1 he St. James Gazette suggests that the British Government 'shall 6ffe¥Heligoland to Germany m exchofoge for JSew Guinea. 1 The Press is" nuanimooi ia condemning' the action' of. Lord, Derby, but the majority of ;qewspSpersj je&r ia •tayorable terms . the.,.action,pf'New South Wales over' the annexation queß.' tion. The Daily News says' tHai* Mr bervice's despatch to the Agent-General was incautious and. hasty. The Daily Chronicle expresses 'an opinion that if the Australian colonies are resolute it will be impossible for Germay to maintain her claim to a Cpbriioii bft^ew (xumea. The Cabinet raeetsHfoWy to discuss the whojo; question. • •::■.' :•■,■■ , ■•:-...,? :■: [Hi Jan. 4. The first issue of 50,000 shares m the " e , w - financial Company -projected by Mr Reginald Brett; of* Acfelaidef has , been advertised, if ive ;iuooß«nft shares have been teaerredf^r Adelaide, and £1 per share has been called up. It-has traDßpired^.th^tiiv". July last Germany forewarned England to desist Pacific where n6 previous ment had. existed." ■ PfiDce'fiismaick U¥"thsort£&><>il bo favorable for the suggested. egkcßange by the British '< 'Government of Heligoland to Germany for New Guinea. „epn,siderßj r the ...weakness shown by the Gladstone ' Cab Vet m its foreign aria* colonial policy to be a source oE national weakness, and suggests that the time has arrived for a'fcbaiige'w the personnel of the Go vernment.J oWhiilSpectatpr approves of the cession of theMew Hebrides to Fiance, proyided that the Recidivistes' Bill 'is withdrawn. The Standard^ insists "that negotiations between British atid German Gdvefrftn^nti, with reference to Pacific, .anneiat ton, should he published... „ ;j J 3nsiJ J^r : The.Times this morning FBteln . that the Cabinet is uudec'ided and dfviifed m opinion with respect to tfee'^He'sWon of French and Gennan'a'nne'k'atfoh In the Pacific. The 'same paper atateathat if Parliament were sitting a vote of censure wotrid probably b'e.;paß#fii > T*gainßt the Government.on the annexation question, and advises. 'Earl Derby to resign hia.position as.CQlonjal. Seojetary. The Daily Telegraph s&ya > itia.t''~%h6 report as v to the. negotiations between the British and" French^Governments ftt'SlSlon of the New Hebrides tafrtfae'SMatter i 8 unfounded, and- that France does not inj teud, tpi interfere .^itb Ne,^f v ||ebrideß. I London newspapers this' morning con- [ demn the Admiralty for creating a Bcaro by d-esp£(tchjng etiißniie!?B<frtaAron so suddenly autl Becretly. Both Times and Standard regret that any such meaningless, step should haye b/ejec^taken.T The departure of the fleet has' caused no excitement on the Contfnerit. T )