CABLEGRAMS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 5, Issue 1488, 20 September 1883, Page 2

CABLEGRAMS.

Reuter's Telegrams, by electric telegraph—copyright LONDON, September 19. The Daily News, hits' issue this morning, publishes an article strongly urgingtbe British Government totake steps to exclude French, convicts from tho, Australian colonies'. ,■. ;; ' SYDNE\, [ September 19. Probate on the will of the late Archbishop Vaughan was granted today, the property being sworn at £61,828, A large attendance is expected at St, Mary's Cathedral to-morrow, when Bishop Redwood will, deliver his panegyric upon the deceased prelate. MELBOURNE, September 19.

Nothing further has transpired regarding the robbery of the Commercial Bank of Australia last night. The stolen notes are. useless, having been cancelled, In the Legislative Assembly this evening, Mr James Service, Premier, in replying .to n qu6stion,;took occasion to remark that Lord Derby completely failed to appreciate tho importance to Australia of the deportation of French convicts to tho Pacific Islands, ■ He declared that if England permitted this ioportation, the colonies would themselves be obliged to devise means for preventing the convicts landing on their slices, 'He considered the French! proposal to populate the Pacific Islands with criminals from French cities was contrary to tho acknowledged principles of international comity and justifies the abrogation of any agreement betweeh the English and French Government with,, regard to those islands, A debate oh the question ensued "on a motion for adjournment, the various speakers unanimously declaring that such a calamity must be averted by any means.

COPENHAGEN, September 18, The Czar of Russia' and King Christian were entertained to-day at lunch by Mr Gladstone on board his yacht. Mr Gladstone sailed later in the day for the coast of Norway, MELBOURNE, Thursday, Arrived,. this morning—Te Anau, from the Bluff, ... No due has yet been obtained as to

the perpetrators of the robbery at the Commercial Bank. It now transpires that no sovereigns, but only bar gold and notes' were' istolen! The, theft appears to have been most skilfully effected. ; ■ '.-.j- a \ft .'■;-■

-SYDNEY, .'■■-;,' Thursday. . Sailed',: yljsterday afternoon-steam-ship Wakatiplfor Wellington. Arrived, this , morning—Hautoto, from Wellington.' : !-: '%

BRISBANE,

U' ' ■ .'.' '' f |( Thursday. &w.The. emigrants by the steamship Duke of Westminister, are placed tin quaMtine for small pox. They will be .released on Monday-next""' l .