HOME AND FOREIGN.

Patea Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 1037, 21 May 1883, Page 3

HOME AND FOREIGN.

fEEDTER—COPYRIGHT.] (Received May 18, 9.50 p.m.) LONDON, May 18. The Aborigines Protection Society have written a letter to Earl Derby, Secretary of State for the Colonies, regarding the projected annexation of New Guinea. The Society urges that the island should be annexed by Great Britain as a Crown colony instead of being placed under the jurisdiction of the Queensland Government. The letter animadverts upon the outrages which are alleged to have been committed by the Queensland police upon the natives of that colony. H.R.H. the Duke of Edinburgh and Lord Wolesley have left London for Moscow to attend the coronation of the Czar on Sunday, the 27th instant. (Received May 19, 12.30 p.m.) LONDON, May 18. Daniel Curley, the second of the Phoenix Park assassins, was executed to-day. There was an immense crowd of people outside the gaol, and much sympathy was expressed with the murderer. ST. PETERSBURG, May 18. Several officers of the Imperial Guard in tin’s city have been arrested, charged, with being members of a secret Revolutionary Chib. (special to press association.) LONDON, May 17. The Usibnpn, under Oham, have given battle to Cetewayo and defeated him, inflicting a loss / of six thousand men. , The reported death of the Count De Chambord is incorrect. The now constitution confers universal suffrage on the Egyptian population over twenty years of age. The Land Leaguers are dismayed at the Pope’s circular. Mr See ton, M.P., contends it does not apply to the laity. A Highland regiment is now in garrison at Port Said. The Agent-General for Queensland, Mr Archer, in a letter to the Times, denies that the colony has any desire to enslave the Papuan inhabitants of New Guinea under any form of labour traffic. An infernal machine has been discovered at Ballina, and six men have been arrested in connection with the discovery. The Sultan promises reform in Armenia. '