"AGE" SPECIALS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1812, 13 October 1884, Page 2

"AGE" SPECIALS.

(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION),

London, October 1.

The term of office ot Sir F. Dillon Bell, Agent-General-for New Zealand, will shortly expire. He was requested by the Government of that colony to retain the position for another term, but he has resolved to retire and he has communicated his decision to the New Zealand Government. October 4,

Arrangements have been made for complete colonial exhibition to be held in London in 1886. Canada, Australia, Cape' Colony, and New Zealand, will take part, and separate buildings will be constructed for the reception of the exhibits from each of the colonies mentioned, The Australian group will be assigned the best position in the exhibition, The Prince of Wales, President of exhibition commission, has expressed a desire that there should be one large Australian!' collection of exhibits in addition to the separate colonial courts, He advises the coinmission to delegate to the AgentsGeneral of Australasia, the chief management of colonial courts, in connection with the exhibition,

The Rev, Charles Strong, lately of Scots Church, Melbourne, will return to Melbourne shortly, but it is doubtful whether he will remain in the colony. Sir Francis Dillon Bell, AgentGeneral for New Zealand, is urging the Lords of the Treasury not to sustain the decision of Henry Fawcett, Postmaster-General, to dispatch mails for New Zealand alternately by the San Francisco route and by the Orient Co.'s steamships, The London Spectator in an article on the recidivistes question, expresses the belief that it is possible that recidivistes if sent to the Pacific may in vade Australia by thousands despite the French guards placed over them. A registered company has been formed to take over and work several sugar plantations in Northern Queensland. Tho capital of the company has been fixed at £150,000. Tho Saturday Review declares that there is reason to believe that New South Wales has been treated with less courtesy than was due to her by other colonies or than has been shown to her by the Imperial Government respecting federation, Tho same paper is of opinion that the protest entered by Mr Stuart, Premier of New South Wales, against the joint colonial pressure proposed to be exerted upon Lord Derby in regard to the establishment of a British protectorate in the Western Pacific is a reasonable one, but it condemns as a flippant suggestion that New South Wales can remain independent. Federation, it adds, ought to bo conditional upon all greater colonies concurring.