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Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4459, 20 April 1883, Page 2

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[Reuteb's Telegrams.] [Received April 20,1.50 p.m.] London, April 19. The Hon. Evelyn Ashley, Under Secretary for the Colonies, in the course of the speech which he made last evening at Northampton, stated that he expected the annexation of New Guinea would have to be undertaken by England in self defence to prevent its acquisition by "IBottier Power. t ■■■■_•'■.., In the House of Commons today, th« HonEvlyn Ashley, in reply to a qtf«iti6n, stated that no step would fte taken by the Imperial Government in regard to the annexation of New Guinea, pending therreceipt of a dispatch from Sir Arthur Kennedy, on the subject. April 19 evening. The trial of Timothy kellyftfr r the murder of L6rd Cavendish and Itfr Tli?H. B,urke commenced at Dublin today. <?r>3 Whitehead, the proprietor of the dynamite factory which was seized at Birmingham, and the dynamite; conspirators who were arrested at London, were again brought up V*t the Bow>stre«ti|*pHce Court to-day. Norman, a former occom* plice of the prisoner's, who, heu turned informer, gave evidence" /to « the effect that the Fenian, fraternity in hew York had hatched the plot to destroy the police building's 4n London j that 6'Donovan Rossa ifijßd been one of the abettors, and that Gajlpgb^r, one of the prisoners before the Court, bad directed the movementsoorf r the gang. The case is still proceeding. • ' ' ' x Stdnbt; Thil idyl

The New South Wales Government have telegraphed to the Agent General in London expressing views in favour of the . annexation of New Guinea. _^ _^