CABLE NEWS.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1312, 21 April 1883, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH,-(COPYRIGHT.) [Reuter’s Telegrams,] LONDON, April 16. In the House of Commons to-day, the question was put to the Undcr-Secretary for the Colonies regarding the reported annexation of New Guinea. In reply, the Hon. Evelyn Ashley confirmed the announcement, and informed the House that the Island had been taken by the Queensland Government in the name of Her Majesty the Queen, pending the decision by the Imperial Government on the subject. Mr Ashley added that the annexation was deemed expedient in order to prevent the acquisition ot New Guinea by foreign powers, April 17. The London newspapers in their leading articles this morning, commenting upon the annexation of Now Guinea, generally express a doubt that the Imperial Government will approve of the action of the Colonial authorities, H.M.S. Dragon, fl guns, has been ordered to Madagascar for the protection of British interests. News is to hand that a French warship has captured Port Ncgra, Loango, on the. West African coast, after severe fighting with the natives, April 18, | Intelligence of a disquieting nature has ' been received from the West African coast, ■ and it is expected that a conflict will ensue between .Stanley’s exploring expedition and the French party under De Brazza, in the Congo country. The trial of Daniel Curley, the second of the prisoners charged with the murder of Lord Cavendish and Mr Burke, was commenced on the 16th, in Dublin, and was concluded to-day. The prisoner was found guilty and sentenced to death. Eight jurors, at the opening of the Court for the trial of Daniel Curley, were found to be absent, and were ordered to pay fines of 100 guineas each. In the course of Daniel Curley’s trial, the informer, Carey, testified to the fact that 20 distinct plots had been formed for the assassination of Mr Forster, late Chief Secretary for Ireland.

j A box containing explosives has been found outside Salisbury Cathedral, and an intended outrage on that city has thus been averted, April 19. The Hon. E, Ashley, Under-Secretary for the Colonies, in the course of a speech which he made last evening at Northampton, stated that he expected that the annexation of New Guinea would have to be undertaken by England, in self defence, to prevent its acquisition by another power, but stat no steps would be taken by the Imperial Government in regard totho annexation of New Guinea, I pending the receipt of a despatch from Sir I Arthur Kennedy on the subject. i Whitehead, the. pveprietor of the dynai mite factory which was seized at Birmingham, and the dynamite conspirators who were arrested in London, were again brought up at Bow street Police Court to-day. Norman, a former accomplice of the prisoners, who has turned informer, gave evidence to the effect that the Fenian fraternity in New York had hatched a plot to destroy the public buildings in London ; that O’Donovan Rossa had been one of the abettors, and that Gallagher, one of the prisoners before the Court, had directed the movements of the gang. The case is still proceeding. NEW YORK, April 18. At a meeting of Irish delegates wmcii has been held at Philadelphia, it has been de- ■ cided to adhere to the intention of holding a i Convention in that city on the 25th inst. Mr Parnell, who was present, advised that the Convention should be postponed until autumn. The leading delegates at the meeting expressed themselves aa opposed to the use of dyanmite for obtaining redress of Irish grievances.

LISBON, April 17. Three Fortugnes men-of war have been ordered to St. Paul, Deloanda, the capital of the Portuguse colony of Angola, on the West African Coast.

MADRAS, April 18. Intelligence of a remarkable catastrophe is to hand from Secunderabad, a town in Wydrubad. A largo number of natives were worshipping on rafts in an extensive tank in the city, when one of the stretures suddenly upset. All the natives who were on it were prccipated into the water, and sixty-two of them were drowned before assistance could reach them.

ST. PETERSBURG, April 10. It is announced that the coronation of the Czar is postponed for a fortinight, until the 10th of June,