CABLEGRAMS.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1258, 25 January 1883, Page 2

CABLEGRAMS.

[beuteb’s telegrams]. BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.-fCOPYRIQHT.) PARIS, Jan. 23. A committee has been elected by the Chamber of Deputies to consider a bill introduced by the Minister of the Interior, to provide measures to provent the issue of Bonapartist manifestos. The majority of the members of the Committee are in (avor of the immediate expulsion of the members of the Bonapartist families from France. It is understood there is dissension in the Cabinet as to the course whioh should be pursued in dealing with the Bonapartist question. The Bonapartist agitation is causing considerable disquiet throughout France at th* present time, and an uneasy feeling is increasing.

LONDON, Jan, 23. The death Is announced to-day of Gustave Dore, the well-known French artist, aged 51.

January 24. At a meeting of the Colonial Institute last night a paper, by Sir W. Fox, on New Zealand affairs was read. It deplored the impolicy of the promises made to Maoris by the Treaty of Waitangi, and entered at length on the Native Question from the foundation of the Colony to the present time. The paper justified the confiscation of Native Lanas as a punishment for the rebellion, and a* necessary security for life and preservation of the peace. Consols to day are quoted 100$ ; a further advance of J. No other changes to report in the money market, or in the markets for Colonial breadstuffs and tallow.

Mails per Orient steamship Potosi, via Naples, from Melbourne Dec. 6, were delivered here to-day.

Evening. At a meeting of shareholders in the Bank of Australasia to-day a ballot was taken on the proposal of the Board to increase the oaaitai by the issue of new shares to the amount of £400,000. The scrutiny showed that the majority of the shareholders were in favor of the increase of capital.