CABLEGRAMS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 5, Issue 1526, 6 December 1883, Page 2

CABLEGRAMS.

, Reuter'b Telegrams, by electric telegraph,—copyright. • ' LONDON, December 5. An expedition, sanctioned by the Koyal Geographical Society, is now being organised for the purpose of exploring New Guinea, and is expected to start at an early date. Telegrams to hand from Zanzibar report that the bombardment of Malagasy coast towns has been again re-' snmed by Admiral Galliqer, and that the French war vessels have shelled several places on the North and south coasts of Madagascar/ ' The report current yesterday' that a peerage would shortly'lie offered to Mr Tennyson is how iplirmed. """.'. 'CAPETOWN," ■ ;.,,'..,. December! News.is to hand from Basutoland to the effect that, the .native tribes have agreed ."to accept the Imperial rule, and that the chiefs have tendered their submission to the British authorities. Per Merchant Shipping and Underwriters' Association. London, December 4:—Arrived, yesterday: steamship Fenstanton, from Lyttelton, October 10, with a cargo of 8000 frozen sheep. . MELBQUME,, December 5, Sailed, this morning—Union steamship Waihora, for the Bluff. LONDON, December 4, The wheat market is unchanged. Adelaide, ex store, 465; New Zealand ditto, 38s Gd, to 43s Gd; AdelaUe flour, ex store, 325. Australian, tallow-best beef, 39s j best mutton, 435. The catalogue, at'td-dav's wool sales comprised 9700 bales. Tho market continues firm,

SYDNEY,

Thursday. Received December 6th, 1 p.m.-A telegram was read at Convention yesterday, announcing that Pranoe lays claim to the • following islands or groupsin the Pacific :-New Caledonia, Loyalties, Pines, .Marquesas (eleven islands), Societies, Tahiti, Moorea, Low Archipelago (eighty islands), Australs, Tuhuai, Xoito, and Rapa, Prance is willing that the Leeward Islands, near Tahiti, should be inclepen-

DURBAN (NATAL), Decembers, It is reported that Cetewayo is to be reinstated at Ulundi with "a British resident there, some British troops remaining in Zululand until quiet is assured.