LATEST TELEGRAPHIC.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1184, 11 December 1883, Page 3

LATEST TELEGRAPHIC.

London, Dec. 8. The Times says that if the Australian Colonies agree to federate, the annexa tion problem will have been more than half solved. The Standard says that the colonies, having limited their demands to cealain Pacific Islands, they should insist that over the remainder England should maintain the peace of the Pacific, with a right to exclude all disturbing elements. The Morning Advertiser strongly supports the decision arrived at by the Conference. It is reported that England has seized an island near the eastern terminus of the Panama Canal, The Times speaks in commendatory terms of Rusden’s “ History of Australia.” The Right Hon H. C. E. Childers, in his speech at Knottingley, said, that the Colonial Empire must necessarily expand ; but its statesmen must wisely regulate the raeasure-of expansion. The French Chamber of Deputies is indignant at the critical relations existing with China having been concealed from it. Five thousand of the Soudan rebels are reported to be in the neighborhood of Sennaar. A mob has destroyed a chapel in Canton, Mr Trevelyan, Chief Secretary for Ireland, states that the reports received from the County Magistracy are that rents are now being paid, and that the system of boycotting is being ‘discontinued. A treaty with Spain is probable. The Italian Government have agreed to allow the Australian mails to be landed at Brindisi, Money is steadily hardening.