CALOGRAMS.

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4578, 6 September 1883, Page 2

CALOGRAMS.

Rettteb's Telegbams

[Received September 6,1 p.m.] London, September 5. France and China.

Much anxiety^ prevails in England in consequence of the threatened rupture between France and China.

Capetown, September 5. Cetewayo still Causing Trouble,

Intelligence is to hand from Zululand that Cetewayo with a strong force is still in the reserved' territory, and has sum> moned the Basutos to his'aid and is adopting a defiant attitude towards the British resident in Zululand.

MELBOtTBNE, This day,

At a sale of Stud land sheep yesterday, two rams by Lustre sold for three thousand one hundred and fifty guineas to T. ■F. Cursing.

[Received Sept. 6, 2AO p.m.] London, September^,

The British India Steam Navigation Co.'s new steamer. Nuder, sailing from, Glasgow on the 20th inst. for Queensland with immigrants, is working under the bounty system. The company intend dcs patching other steamers with bounty immi« grants at internals, in addition to their regular fortnightly steamers to Queensland.

London, September 5. The death is announcsd of Charles Morgan Norwood, who has represented Hull constituency in the House of Commons since 1865, aged 58^

Prince Albert Victor, elder son of the Prince of Wales, was invested yesterday with tbe Order of the Garter.

Telegrams have been received here reporting that two French war vessels left JNoumea for the .New Hebrides Group, with instructions to protect the interests of the French Company trading in those Islands.

[Specials to the Pbess Association.] London, September 3. A. Servian General is attempting to

organise a quasi-military trading English expedition to New Guinea.

Australian hops are quoted at £5 per owt. ..*'■■

Mr Lachlan Mackinnon, one of the proprietors of the Melbourne Argus, in a letter to the Standard, warns Lord Derby that the refusal of the Imperial Government to annex the Pacific Islands will lay the foundation of discontent and distrust among the Colonies, ultimately resulting in separation. The Standard considers that the meetings held in Australia in regard to the annexation question show that the threats made by the Colonies in reference to it are not merely idle ones. ■ The recent volcanic eruptions at Java having changed the Straits of Sunda and^ endangered navigation, the Admiralty have ordered that a survey be made without delay. An extension of the Austro-German alliance has been arranged. The latest despatches received from Hong Kong state that the relations between China and France are daily becoming more strained, and that war between those two countries is inevitable. The Chinese are sending large numbers of reinforcements to Canton.