TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1117, 5 July 1883, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN. London, July 2. It has- transpired thal Sir F. D. Bell, Agent-General for New Zealand in London, will draft the statement which Lord Derby requested the Colonial Agents-General to draw up jointly, with regard to the proposed annexation of the Pacific Islands, for the considers - tion of the Imperial Cabinet. liijthe House of Commons to-day, Mr Gladstone in replying to a question announced that the despatch replying to the application of the Queensland Government for the annexation of New Guinea was nearly ready for transmission. The despatch, the Premier stated, would refuse to confirm the action of ths Colonial Government, which, moreover, was null and void in point of law and was unwarranted by the circumstances of the case. As regarded the policy of annexation, the Government considered that the colonies were unsuited to hold such functions, and annexation by any foreign Power was not feared. Mr Gladstone concluded by stating that it was, however, intended to strengthen the hands of the Governor of Queensland with regard to the maintenance of the Police Service in Queensland and the adjacent Australian seas. English harvest prospects are gene- , rally considered favorable, owing to the fineness of the weather. A Fenian society in New York called the ‘ Irish Brothers ’ have formally sentenced Lord Chief Justice Coleridge to death for passing sentence on the Birmingham dynamite conspirators. Thirty vessels engaged -in the seal trade are reported to be icebound in Labrador and the crews are starving. Lord Randolph Churchill has forwarded to Mr Gladstone evidence against the Khedive as having been the instigator of the massacre in Alexandria, The French have been expelled from the capital of Madagascar. A splendid service of plate has been presente I to General Lord Wolseley by the Corporation of Dublin. It is expected the Victorian loan of two millions will average 99. The cargo of frozen meat by the steamer Orient has been cleared at 6£d per lb. June 8. In the House of Lords last night Earl Derby, in reply to a question, stated that there was little hope of the Government assenting to the proposed annexation of the New Hebrides and other islands in the Pacific. His Lordship suggested that it would be desirable for the Australian Colonies to federate before entering upon any scheme of annexation, Mr T. M. Healey, who resigned his feat for Wexford in the House of Commons to contest the vacancy in the representation of Monaghan, has been elected for that constituency by a majority of 365, Paris, July 2. The Comte de Chambord is still lingering. A Council of Orleanist Princes has been summoned to meet at Paris te consider the position of party affairs. Alexandria, July 1. Notwithstanding the measures which have been adopted to localise the cholera epidemic, the disease continues to spread rapidly. Several deaths are now reported to have occurred at Daraanhour, a town of 25,000 inhabitants, within 40 miles of this city.