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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 1908, 6 February 1885, Page 2

"AGE" SPECIALS.

,(UNITEDfRESS A9SOOIAXION,)

■■"■ •'-■ ' (by XELEORAipii;);; " : " ; ' ;..;;. :■>-;-,: ''■■ London; January2l,. ; Som'enegotiations' have recently taken place the Colonial Office and Bismarck on the subject of German annexation in New Guinea. Mr Murray Smith, the Victorian Agent-General has endeavored-i to ascertain the result of these negotiations, but up to the present time has not succeeded.

The Marquis of Lome is gaiyyassingthe Agents-General of the various colonies, with a view of obtaining their support to an Imperial federation soheme,

The Governors of the various French colonies have received directions to, onforce the provisions for the Foreign Enlistment Actin their respective colonies. The forces thus raised are intended for service in China,

January 25. It ifl reported that the British Govom' mont intonds annexing the whole of the southern portion of Now Guinea now qlalnjod. hy the IJiitoh, and tl(at Soratchloy will bo appointed ttpvoViifti' j and it is also oxpeefced that tho subpid.y will require to be inoreased, It is stated that England will not interfere with Solomon Island, Gorman White's book on New Guinea question js now being toned. A Fenian has been arrested whdst em-., barking at San Francisco for Australia, with the intention, it Is believed, of blowing up Australian prisons with dynamite. January 26.

The English Press deplore concessions recently made by the British Cabinet, and which will, perhaps, have the effect of reyiyjng jthe dual control over Egypt.