"AGE" SPECIALS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 5, Issue 1515, 22 October 1883, Page 2

"AGE" SPECIALS.

■• , e..; .- ■...'•■.v|,; UNITED PRESS 'ASSOCIATION. ■ : !' ' ■ ■■ ■"'- ■"■ ■''■' ; ' i't LONDON, IJ October 10. ' Dicey publishes another letter in the 1 Times in reply to Murray Smith jn re- ; ; lation to the refusal of the Victorian; •Government to allow the .disembarka-i tion of Irish informers. Dicey replies', at length to the arguments brought; forward by Smith iu supporfc;.o£:the Government; and asserts that he retains views previously expressed by him on the subject, and repeats that the Viotorian Government have placed themselves in a serious position by their action, and adds that to .protect them from the consequences it will be. necessary for the Imperial - Govern-, ment to pass an act of indemnity. The Times discusses the subject in a leading article, and joins with Dicey condemning the Victorian Government for their rejection of the informers, and asserts that the high-handed action of Service will seriously affect the: Jra:. penal Government carrying, out their Irish policy, as it will increase the difficulty of punishing; crime in Ireland. '.""!."•', 7 : '"": V'' :The Times this morning discusses the policy of Victorian Coalition Ministry, and expresses itsjwarmest approbation of their determination to abolish political patronage in the- Government service. ' ' j : '' A rumor is current that the German Government have formally demanded

ianv^offiqial; 'from France to tolling mi^is, ; : -, '."'•■'■• , • ; "refuse to featies or conventions into between France and the BlackFlagsat Tonquin. Usibepu, the Zulu chief, who recently defeated Cetewayo, insists that England should remove the latter chief a considerable: distance from the scene of 'the late-oonfiict.

Latest ; 'a;dvices- from Madagascar .shows.thai •theßritish residents at complaining bitterly of the severity practiced by the French ! authprities: at ;that place, . , / j. Sale of Gfippsjand hops from- Tambo '•estate has- beea effected at M per ; CWt, • " ..i-: .'. !" ~ ; ' PARIS, VVi if*•;.-s:>{.-V-'- October 11. Government ; have formally intimated that they.'decJine to make any ■ fur%er<. reparation for the insult,oJfeM#'jEng : " Alphonso when recently iff ' '■■ '■<,. v:.; V,•""•! ' ; .: '■."' .'' October 11, ~ iijihe intellige'nde" that France, lias refused to this op.pntVyi titan has already been offered by-official, confirmation in Grevy's apology has- caused'a~ crisis in the Spanish^Mjlfe,, 7 iM|mbers of the as be taken in the matterjrand the : Premier, Senor Sagasta, has consequently tendered his resignatipn;and.that of his colleagues ' : \^,;^LONDON,-.;..' .■- : ' October 11.

■Lord Derby,has officially directed the attention of the authorities of Queensland and Fiji to statements supplied to the Age by Mr Morrison on the'subject "of the" native labor traffic.

An increase is about to be made in the number'Of ships on the Australian naval station, and Commodore Erskine who is now in command of the station will be supsrseded by an Admiral., A body of Austrian regular troops have ! hada severe engagement with some Roumanian forces. .Ultimately sixty of the Roumanians who were defending disputed territory, were captured. . - • .-

_ The Tomp3, a Parisian journal, refer ring to the alleged insulting conduct o Commodore Erskine, commander of the fleet on the Australian naval station towards Captain MacLeod of New Hebrides, .characterised his behavior as more arrogant than that of Admiral Pierre towards Captain Johnstone of the Dryad at Tamatave,

! An Imperial blue book issue yesterday confirms. the statement made by Lord Granville in the House of Lords some time.ago to tho effect that both England and France would uphold the neutrality of the New Hebrides, and that neither power would seek to annex ; tha| territory. . The, Revolution'which originated contly/am.ong the Mack population at Port An Prince,,,thecapital.of Hayti; one-.of the.'largest islands .of'-the West assumed an alarming proportions. . ~.- .''■' .-.:•

The revolutionists hare destroyed 'the Government, and seized on the forts, - They then proceeded to fire on the British "steam»r which was conveying \tlje jritish Consul and a number of European refugees from the island;