FRANCE AND THE COLONIES. [BY TELEGRAPH-COPYRIGHT.]

Waikato Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2210, 7 September 1886, Page 2

FRANCE AND THE COLONIES. [BY TELEGRAPH-COPYRIGHT.]

[rkutek's tklegkams.] MiaiiontNK, September 4. Sir G. Bkuhy, Agent-General, telegraphs to his Government that M. de Freycinet, the French Premier, refuses to make any concession regarding the transportation of R^cidivistes, and that he slates the laws relating thereto rniibt take their course. Sir G. Berry further announces that Lord Lyons, the British Ambassador at Paris, reports that M. de Froycinet has expressed his annoyance at the representation made to him by the British Government. Sir Graham adds that Mr Stanhope, Secretary of State for the Colonies, .states that he still has hopes of a satisfactory settlement of tho New Hebrides question.

|I'iIESS ASSOCIATION.] London. September 3. Sir Graham Berry, in a despatch to the Colonial Office, states that the recent deportation of recidiviates is a gross wrong, and calculated to deeply offend and irritate the colonies, which will now take effectual measures to defend their shores from moral contamination. Sir J. F. Garrick has also made reference to a report which has reached Mr Griffiths, Premier of CJueen:?land, to the etfect that permanent buildings are being erected at the New Hebrides for the reception of re'cidivistei.