Aanexation.

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4614, 18 October 1883, Page 2

Aanexation.

The Star's London correspondent writers —"It is unquestionably a great pity that the Australian mail wfcich brought over the i: utipodeau newspapers containing articles on Mr Gladstone's refusal to sanction the annexation of NewGuinea and the Pacific islands, should not have arrived prior to the rising of Parliament. Now that the colonial view of the question is r,t last thoroughly understood, a strong revulsion of feeling has fcken place, and even those who at first most strenuously opposed the idea of further annexations now candidly admit that the matter requires grave consideration. X forward herewith articles from the Morning Post and St. Jarte^'s Gazette, published since the mail arrived. The tone taken up by the " Times " and " Standard " is very similar to these, but perhaps the greatest impression has been created by a vigorous lettar to the "Times" from Mr L. Mackinnon, of Melbourne, in which he solemnly warns Mr Gladstone that adherence to his present policy •' will lay the foundation of a discontent and distrust in the minds of all Australasian colonists that will result in a severance at no distant date from the parent State,"