CABLEGRAMS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 5, Issue 1527, 5 November 1883, Page 2

CABLEGRAMS.

Keuter's Telegrams, SYDNEY, November 4. Sir Anthony Musgrave, Governor of Queensland, was a passenger by the .Sorata, which arrived for Melbourne this morning. His Excellency sailed again for Brisbane by the Ranetagh, ADELAIDE, November 3, Arrived,. to-night—Messageries s,s, Natal, from Marseilles (Sept. 27). LONDON, November 3. Received November Gth, 12 45 a.m.— sir Stafford Northcoto was to-day elected Rector of tho University of Edinburgh vice Earl Roseberry. Ho defeated Geo, Trovolyan, Chief Secretary of Ireland, who was a candidate for the Rectorship,. A disastrous fire occurred to-day in Buchanan-st., Glasgow, at the warehouse of Messrs Wylie <& Lockhead, paper Btainers. It raged some time, and before the flames could bo extinguished the building and contonts were completely destroyed. The loss is act down at fully two huudroil thousand pounds storting. Arrived, at Plymouth yesterdayOrient, steamship, from Melbourne, {Sept 22) with a cargo of frozen meat. Per Merchant Shipping and Underwriters' Association.—Arrived—Norman Maclcod, from Timaru, August 7, Gateside. from Lyttelton, August 4. Gloncora, from Auckland, August 16. Merope, from Bluff, August 15, and ship Estrella, PARIS, November 3. Ohallemol Lacour. speaking to-day at at Cannes announced thathe had resigned his position in the French Ministry, and that Ferry, the Premier, would, iu the interim, take the portfolio of Foreign Affairs. Ho further stated that Ferry will next' week ask the Chamber of Deputies to vote a credit of 10 million francs to cover tho espouses of the Tonquin oxpedition. A despatch has been received from Tonquin announcing Admiral Oourbot now at Hanoi, and preparing to attack Bac Ninh without delay. The force will consist of tlireo thousand men, including artillery with thirty guns. A report has reached hero-from Madagascar that the Malagasy envoys who recently returned thoro from Europe have been strangled. BERLIN, November 3, A Russian was arrested to-day at Dirsclian near Dautzig, Russia having confessed ho was in Germany on a Nihilist mission to murder Prince Bisinarok. SYDNEY, Monday. Arrived, last evening—Waihora from Auckland. BRISBANE, Monday. Tho Queensland Parliament will bo opened on Wednesday next. MELBOURNE, November 3. The Victorian Parliament was prorogued to-day. The Governor's speech on 'he occasion, stated that the session now ended had been marked by the importance of the legislative measures passed, result' ing from the harmony prevailing between tho Council and tho Assembly, The importance attacted to tho question of the annexation of New Guinea, and other Pacific Islands, at the opening of Parliament, had been increased by the action of Franco in proposing to deport to the islands the vilest and worst of her criminals; notably those so far steeped in crime as to ho deemed unlit to be retained within her territorial limits. The matter was of vital importance to the Australian colonies, containing, as they do. British people numbering over three millions, and representing the best enterprise of England. Those islands should not becomo the possessions of any foreign Power. Such a sink of moral pollution should not be.permitted to exist at the portals of Southern Britain. Willi deep feeling of threatened wrong, and a strong sense of the lasting national misfortune tiiat would be entailed upon them, all the colonies had strongly remonstrated with the Imperial authorities, The convention, comprising representatives of all the colonies, which was about to assemble at Sydney to deal with this matter specially, and also the question of federation, will it is still hoped induce the Mother Country, upon whom the duty, rests of conserving the national character of this portion of the empire, to take effectual measures to avert such a calamity as is threatened Whether the object would be best attained by the.annexation of or the establishment of a protectorate over the islands was not material. The end and aim of the colonies must be to prevent such an occupation as would become a standing menace to their peaceful shores, and also to avert the infiltration of criminalßi The Bpeech aho stated that the railways of this colony have grown into a gigantic system, the annual receipts being two millions sterling, and the actual expenditure one million for management, 176 miles have been opened during the past twelve months, making a total of 1500 open for traffic, An additional 193 miles are boing constructed rapidly. It is estimate! that the revenue for the current year ending 30th June next will exceed that of the past year by fully £IOO,OOO, judging by the favorable prospeots of tho, pastoral and agricultural seasons,