EUROPEAN NEWS.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXV, Issue 10234, 26 June 1883, Page 2

EUROPEAN NEWS.

$ (Per Waihara at the Bluff.) (PER UNITED PBESS ASSOCIATION.) Bluff, June 25. The an ti- vaccination agitation has been vigorously revived in England. It is believed that the Cabinet is inclined, as in regard to the agitation against the Contagious Diseases Acts, to let Parliament decide without maintaining any opinion of its own. The Admiralty has decided to pay off all sailing schooners oa Australian stations, but will replace them with the small powerful composition steamers. The gunboats Eaven and Goshawk havo ' been selected, and will proceed to Australia: The Raven, a new vessel, carrying four heavy breech-loading guns, will leave Sheerness in a few days, but the Goshawk is under repairs, and will not be ready for a month. The schooners will be sold. The Prince and Princess of Wales, accompanied by the principal members of the Royal family, opened the International Fisheries ■ Exhibition, South Kensington; *»n the 12th. The Prince, replying to an address, thanked on behalf of the Queen the foreign nations aud the colonies represented for their generous co-operation. Tho exhibition is a great success, and has been crowded daily since the- opening. Jtfsberuien from several countries attend in national .costume. The Chinese collection is a most remarkable and instructive section of tha oshibitioa. I A disastrous double collision occi'-red ' at Lockerley junction on the Caledonian railway on the morning of the lolh. A goods train from Glasgow ran into the' passenger train from Strander. Imtne■liately afterwards the mail train from* Glasgow dashed into the debris. Five passengers and two officials were killed, and thirty persons injured. , The Committee of- the Aborigines Protection Society addressed a letter to Lord 1 -Derby' upon I the 'pcoposedj annexation of~; New Guinea,, expres- ' sing a strong' conviction that if New Guinea is annexed, measures should be ( taken by the- Government that, ' the' administration of the' .'island - should be placed on the same footing as Fiji or other Crown colony, such' courae ' being essential to the maintenance of the Queen's supremacy, and the establishment on a'secure basis pif the' rights of the native inhabitants. The committee deprecated the adoption of any polioy which would virtually place New Guinea . under the control of the planting interest in Queensland, and subject the natives to the labour system, which can only be prevented generating into slavery by the most vigilant super* .'sion of the Home Government.