TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1149, 11 March 1884, Page 1

TELEGRAMS.

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN. London, March. 4. The Light Hon. Lord John Manners has given notice of an important amendment to the Premier’s Reform Bill. The amendment declares the pro posed reform of the franchise to be unacceptable, unless it be accompanied by a Bill for the redistribution of seats. « March 5. The final resort of the Western Pacific Commission has been laid before Parliament. It condemns the supervision of the labor traffic by colonial agents, and urges the latter should be appointed by the Crown. A recommendation is made that the labor traffic should be more closely watched by the naval authorities in Australia, and that resident Deputy Commissioners be appointed to the various islands. Opposition is expressed to the control of the Polynesian and New Guinea races being vested in the Colonial Governments. The report further recommends that the High Commissionership of the Western Pacific should be disconnected from the Governorship of Fiji, and that the High Commissioner should reside in New Guinea, Later. The report of the Western Pacific Commission has now been published, and’ shows that it was correctly summarised in the message forwarded in October last. It recommends that any authority exercised beyond the confines of Australia should be wholly of an Imperial character, and that the existing machinery is sufficient for the purpose. A Commissioner with the status of an Australian Governor should be resident in New Guinea, and naval officers on the station be authorised to bring all offenders before the Court. It is essential that the labor traffic be entirely under Imperial control, and that the recruiting of women should be limited to the immediate relations of men recruits. Authority should also be given to punish native outrages on whites. The Council of British Residents should be empowered to levy taxation to defray part of the cost of control. The captain and socond officer of the Aberdeen hdve died, March 6. It is supposed that the men implicated in the recent dynamite outrages at metropolitan railway stations have made their way to France, and several police officers have gone to that country with a view to detect them. Representations having been made to the French police on the subject, every assistance is being afforded to the English officers to effect the arrest of the offenders. March 7.

At the instance of the Government, proceedings have been commenced by the Attorney-General, Sir Henry James, Q.C., against Mr Bradlaugh for illegally sitting and voting in the House of Commons on the 11th February. Berlin, March Q. The German Parliament was opened to-day by the Emperor, whose speech on the occasion dwelt on the strengthening of tho hereditary friendship between Germany and her neighbors, which His Majesty sr.id was the security for the peace of Europe. Constantinople, March 6. In consequence of the outcry raised by the inhabitants of CVndia against the Mussulman Governor of that island, the Porte has agreed to accede to the demands of the people, and revoked the appointment of the Governor. AUSTRALIAN CABLE. Adelaide, March 8.

Another fire, which is believed to he tho work of an incendiary, occurred here yesterday. The police have arrested a man named Drew, a photographer out of employment, who is .suspected ol being concerned iu this and other recent (ires. Tho prisoner had a quantity o' spirits and chemicals in his possession.