"AGE" SPECIALS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 5, Issue 1414, 26 June 1883, Page 2

"AGE" SPECIALS.

■■ (Press Association.). , ' LONDON, , June 12. Le Coir, a Paris paper, has an article, this..morning'insisting on the rights of >Fi;ance ; jin i the New. Hebrides, ; and urging that any attempts at annexation by .the colonies should-be resisted. , ' ' Evening, . It is stated by several leading. London,papers that'the English Government Ml not.allow.Victoria to annex tlie New Hejmdes. It is also reported that an ngreemsnfc has been made between England and .Franco that neither country should take possession of the islands.

recently held at the Methodists ' New. Cdnnectioh, it [was decided •to continue the missions to 'outlying portions of Aiiistralia. The Duke of Cambridge, Commander-in-Chief of the English armyibas given' evidence before a commission appointed to report on the proposed channel tunnel.. He condemns'the undertaking from a military point of view. .' . The Suez Canal Company have decided to construct a second canal, parallel with the one now in use, across the Isthmus of Suez. Plans are being prepared. It will be lighted at night bv electricity.. - ' The Prince of Wales and the Dukes of Connaught and Albany voted with the majority for the second reading of the Marriage with deceased wife's sister's Bill. Nearly the whole of the prelates of the House of Lords were with the minority who opposed it!

' The liberal-members of the German Reichstag are vehemently oppositig the bill-introduced by the Government for the modification of falk law passed in 1873. The bill which the Government have brought forward has been referred td a committee fairly representing botli. Tlie resignation is announced of Herr Von Bermingen, who, since 1863, has been President of the Prussian Chamber of .Deputies Thirty, passengers, by the .English steamer Bellona liavo been seized by a : .party of brigands while on shore at Keilukj* a : sea coast town in' Asia Minor, and conveyed to the interior.

' ■. , June I' 4. • ; . In. an article on Victoria in the "Pall Mall, Gazette• to-day that paper unfavorably' criticises the low ifiinimum fixed for. the £2,000,000 Victorian redemption loan, and also oomments adversely, on the effects that 'the annexation of New Hebrides" will have on the colonies.

■ The St. James' Gazette, to-day) has an article on Colonial Defences, in ; which the activity- of the colonies in providing means of .defence, is. warmly praised. It is probable that district juries will not be appointed for the colonies at the Amsterdam Exhibition. Exhibits will, it is atabedj be divided into classes, and there will be a jury for each.section. . .. , r

: SeveraPoi'ders' have '.'recently been received from, the colonies, by; Armstrong, the. well-knowii ordnance maker, of 'Eiswick, for, heavy guns, to be mounted on batteries recently constructed in several colonies. ..

,'At a banquet which was given to the Hon., John Bright at Birmingham, at which Earl Granville was present, the latter, in replying to the toast of his Kealthj;said that the Government wei-e mediating with a view to bringing about a pacific settlement of the difficulty had arisen' between France and Madagascar, ■ The course adopted by> the .Pope, relative to thfe suppression of,lrish outrages, has aroused great indignation amongst the Fenians 'of Chicago., Two thousand of their number have signed a,manifesto repudiating the authority, of His' Holiness in, the matter,;and urging the Irish people to disregard his commands,