LATE CABLE NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 13, 21 January 1885, Page 2

LATE CABLE NEWS.

(Per 8.8. Wuiliora at the Bluff.) (AGE SPECIALS. (UNITED PRISES ASSOCIATION.) London, Jan. 7. General Compenaon, the French Minister of War, lias resigned because he declares M. Jules Ferry, Premier, to be merely the tool of Prince Bismark. A German Company ititerrested m New Guinea, New Britain, and New Ireland, places recently annexed by Germany, are building two steamers to trade between the various islands. Jan. 8. . Mr Gladstone's eldest son, the member for East Worcestershire, m addressing a meeting at Hawardeu yesterday, said that his father would shortly retire from public life. • The British Government have forwarded a very indignant protest to the German authorities- on • the annexation questiou, m which Prince Bismark is accused of a breach of faith m having directed tho annexation of a portion of New Guinea. \ Earl Derby repudiates, the • idea .that the Bridal) Cabinet' iuteuds to cede the island of Heligoland, m the North Sea, to Germany, m consideration fit the* latter relinquishing all claims on New Guinea. The attitude of New South Waleia at the present juncture is most perplexing to the Colonial Office, and the AgentsGeneral arc confident that Germany will m the end be compelled to abandon New Guinea. Prince Bismark declines to define the limits of German annexation m New Guinea and the Pacific until he has received full particulars and reports from the cotumauders of the German warships at present m the Pacific. Earl Derby will forward despatches to the Governors of the several Australian colonies on the annexation question tomorrow. Jnn. 9. General satisfaction is expressed at the determination of the British Government to e.\teiid the British protectorate over the North-east Coast of Now Guinea to' the Huuon Gulf, the commencement of the German boundary. Jan. 11. .In tins German Reichstag yesterday, during a debate arising out of recent annexation for Germany of Cnmeroons, on the West Coast of Africa, by Nachtigal, Bißinnrk made a speech m which he threatened to abandon his colonising policy it'tho question was postponed. TJje JuinepfffW pi-pjepf of New Guinea showed tho danger of delay, and Erigli^hiije!! were repotted to be foinentiug disorders m New Guinea and Cameroons. IJe further deprecated allusjpus. l>eif)£ made tp t|ie possibility of war, an<} expressed an. Pp'Rifl" that nil apnesafion difficulties, ppujd be §ettled by nogotiatip.ii,