TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1116, 3 July 1883, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN. London, June 28 .

The : deatb ; is announced of Dr Wm. Spottiswop.de,, the well-known printer arid scientist, aged 58.

. Mr Trevelyan denied that penniless paupers are being despatched as immigrants to America, In the House' of Lords fo-day the Deceased .Wife’s Sister Bill was rejected by a majority of five. L Heavy iails of rain - have injured the exhibits in the Victorian Court at the Amsterdam Exhibition. One hundred and fifteen deaths 00. curred at Daraietta on Thursday last.

The Chinese legation has been advised that owing to the rune conduct of M. Tricon, the French Ambassador, the Chinese Viceroy has declined to meet him any more, and the negotiations regarding Touquin are consequently suspended. The Prince of Wales and the Duke of Albany voted with the minority in the House of Lords on the third reading of the Decased Wife’s Sister Bill'

The Ashantees have invited British protection. June 30.

In the House of Commons last night, Sir Wm. Vernon Harcourt introduced a Bill to provide for the institution of local Government Boards in Scotland.

Latest intuUiffence from Daraietta states that cholera still continues to rage without abatement. The vessels proceeding through the Suez Canal will not touch at any port in Egypt, strict quarantine being maintained at all the continental ports, at Malta, and at Gibraltar. At the annual dinner of the Cobden Club to-day, Sir Saul Samuel, AgentGeneral for New South Wales, in responding to the toast of “ The Colonies,” said that if the intercolonial tariffs were made fiscal, and net protective, he was certain that free trade would soon bo the policy of all the colonies.

Calcutta, June 28.

Telegrams are to hand from Afghanistan announcing that further fighting has taken place between the Ameer’s troops and the rebel Shinyvarris, resulting in the defeat of the former, and the capture of the whole convoy by the Shinwarris. New York, June 29.

The Immigration Board of this city has shipped back to Ireland several pauper families who recently arrived.

THE ANNEXATION QUESTION.

London, June 28

The deputation of Agents-General to Lord Derby, Secretary of State to the Colonies, on the annexation question was private. The following has, however? transpired as to what took place. The Agents-General asked Lord Derby either to annex or establish a protectorate over all the Pacific Islands, extending from Samoa to New Ireland, Sir D. F. Bell, the Agent-General for New Zealand, urged the great risk of some foreign power annexing these Islands. Lord Derby replied that he was unaware of any facts which would justify any such fear, Mr Murray Smith, the Agent-General for Victoria, dwelt strongly upon the danger and disgrace of a foreign convict settlement in the island 0 . He deemed it prudent to press tor the establishment of a protectorate only. He also read a cable message from Mr Service, Premier of Victoria, stating that profound dissatisfaction would .be created throughout the Australian colonies if the Imperial Government refused to entertain their requests on this matter. Sir Saul Samuel, Agent General for New South Wales, urged the importance of increasing the trade between the colonies and the islands. Mr Archer, Agent-General for Queensland, dwelt chiefly on the Nfiw Guinea question. Sir A. Blyth, the AgentGeiaeral for South Australia, was silent.

The Agents-General gathered from Lord Derby’s observations that the New Guinea annexation question was settled. His Lordship stated that he was perfectly sensible of the gravity of the question at issue. He, however, avoided committing himself to any decisive expression of opinion, &nd

asked the Agents-General to supply him with a joint statement of their arguments, and the evidence on which they are based, for the' guidance of the Cabinet in arriving at a decision. The Hon Evelyn Ashley, M.P., Undersecretary for the Colonies, was present at the interview. !.