EUROPEAN.

Te Aroha News, Volume I, Issue 36, 9 February 1884, Page 4

EUROPEAN.

London, January 22.— Nothing dofinito will be done with respect to the proposed annexation of New Guinea until after the arrival of despatches from the Australian Governments with I'epect to the decision arrived at by the Australian Conference which met in Sydney. The resolutions passed by the Convention, and which have been cabled to London, are, however, regarded as of great importance, and must carry weight with the Imperial authorities dealing with the question. London, January 3O.—The sum of L400,00Q in gold has been withdrawn from the Bank of England for Australia. The 11 Standard," commenting on the reoent heavy shipments of gold to Australia, asserts that it is not to relieve the critical situation of the Australian banks. London, January 31. —Mr Murray Smith (Agent-General for Victoria) and Mr Thos. Archer {late Agent-General for Queensland) have been created Companions of the Order of St. Michael and St. George ; and Mr Frederick Whitaker (ex -Premier of New Zealand) and Sir George Wigram Allan (Knight, of New South Wales) have been made Knight Commanders of that honourable Order. The shipment of butter exChimboi'azohas realised Is Id per lb. It is reported not to have been sufficiently salted. The frozen mutton ex Cuzco is being sold for s^d to 6d per lb., realising Gd to 7sd per lb. A Russian envoy has left for Honolulu in order to present a diamond decoration to King Kalakana, of the Sandwich Islands. A sensation has been created on the Stock Exchange by the failure of P. W. Thomas, Sons, and Co., stockbrokers, 35 Thread-needle-street, who have failed with liabilities amounting to eight hundred thousand pounds. London, January 31. —Thomas and Sons, stockbrokers, have become defaulters for the amount of ei^ht hundred thousand pounds, and the principal in the firm has absconded. London, January 31. — Parliament meets on Tuesday next, February sth. The Opposition whip has already annonnced the intention of the party to move an amendment on the address in reply to the Queen's speech, and condemning policy pursued by Government in Egypt. It has been arranged that Bradlaugh shall appear at the bar of the House on the 11th of February, and make a further appeal for admission to Parliament. London, January 31.— The amendment to foe proposed in the House of Commons to the Address from the Throne will touch principally on the affairs in Egypt. Admiral Courbet, the Commander-in-Chief of the French operations in Tonquin, reports that the town of Bac Ninh is too strong to attack. London, February I.— The inquiry into the wreck of the Duke of Westminster on the coast of the Isle of Wight concluded to-day. The Court found the master at fault, and suspended his certificate for six months. London, February I.— Bishop Barry's library was on board the Simla, and has been lost. The reports about the French troops having been repulsed at Bacninh are not confirmed. London, Feb. I.— The Melbourne portion of 2.000 carcases, cargo ex Cuzco, has been found in good condition. The first portion placed in the market realised sid to 6d per pound. London, February I.— Fully sixty per cent, of the New Zealand frozen meat per lonic was damaged by fire. London, February 1. — The London and j Chartered Bank lose £120,000 by the failure of Messrs Thomas, Sons, and Co. The money was advanced on fraudulent securities, but is fully covered by the amount of the reserve fund. An East Indian institution is also reported to have been victimised |o the extent of £50,000. London, February L— The P. and O. steamship Ballarat, leaving for Australia, takes the following specie shipments : — L 150,000 for Adelaide, L70,d00 for Melbourne, L 200.000 for Sydney. London, February 2. — Acceding to the request of the Victorian Government, the Postmaster-General, Mr Fawcett, has agreed to cancel the order requiring letters to bear special directions as to the route by which they are to be forwarded to Australia. London, February 3,— Mr Fawcett states that many thousands of letters and papers, obviously intended for transmission by the P. and 0. mailboats to Australia, are every week detained, owing to the regulations as to " specially addressed." i London, February 3. — The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company propose to increase their capital by half a million. Prince Napoleon has authorised a renewal of the agitation in favour of the Bonaparte cause. | Paris is placarded with appeals urging i the police to rise and assist the starving populace. London, February 3.— A slight fall in the London Chartered Bank stock has taken | place. I Sir Hercules Kobinson will return to the i Governorship of the Cape shortly. Australian wheat cargoes, for shipment, average 43s fid, and for London direct 41s 6d. Colonial wheat, ex store, is unchanged. " Le Temps " says that the only effect of the recidiviste scheme will be to swell the ranks of ruffianism in the Pacific by the banishment thither of those whom it has been found impossible to reform. London, February 4. — It has transpired that the Government has decided to apply to Parliament for the sum of £2,000,000, to be devoted to defences at home and abroad. Wreckage belonging to the ill-fated ship Simla has been washed ashore on the Sussex coast. JfLoNDON, February 4. — The Spanish claims to Soolof, Caroline Islands, will probably be recognised by England if Spain abandon its claim in Borneo. An extensive Socialist plot has been discovered in Austria. Paris, Feb. L— At Vienna to-day several araests have been made of persons im- \ plicated in recent outrages, and the ex- | pulsion from this city of many others con- j cerned in the socialist agitation has been ordered. The French Government loan of four millions of pounds sterling is announced. Paris, February 3. — M. Eugene Rouher, formerly President of the Senate, died to-day, aged 70. ] Vienna, January 31. — Owing to the i number of murders and outrages recently committed by Socialists, the ordinary law j has been suspended in this city and suburbs, < and martial law has been proclaimed. Much alarm prevails at the disturbed state of affairs. Cairo, January 30. — Baker Pasha, with a force of 4,000 troops, is about to commence operations against the Arab rebels, and will land at Prinkjtat, with a view of relieving the besieged garrison at Toka. 20,000 Arabs are preparing to oppose his advance. A Press Association despatch says; — In consequence of the repeated tbreatenings of the rebels under El Mahdi, the Egyptian Government are preparing to despatch a strong body of troops up the river tf He,

Cairo, January 31.-— News has been received here that the garrison at Senaar is now without food, and owing to the number of Arabs surrounding the town rolief is impossiblo. Cairo, January 31. — Baker Pasha has been carrying on negotiations with a number of Arab sheikhs, who have shown themselves favourable to the pretensions of the Mahdi, and the result of his efforts has been so far successful that several of them have given in their submission to the Egyptian authorities. Cairo, Feb. 2.— News has been received here that Baker Pasha, after landing at Trinkilat, made a reeonnoisance in foroe, and had a skirmish with the enemy. The latter fled southwards. Baker's cavalry pursued the enemy for several miles, and killed hundreds of them. Colonel Go rdon, recently appointed Governor ,of the Soudan, passed through Korosko yesterday, and entered the desert, en route to Khartoum. CAißO,February 3.— News is to hand from Sinkat, where the garrison is without provisions, to the effect that foraging parties which were sent out to obtain supplies were cut to pieces by the Arabs. Washington, February 3.— The Tariff Bill which is now before Congress provides for a general reduction of Customs duties to the extent of 20 per cent. The proposed reduction will be applied to woollen goods. The death is announced of Wendell Phillips, the well known American orator, aged 73.