OUR SPECIAL CABLES.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 4908, 7 May 1887, Page 3

OUR SPECIAL CABLES.

[PBESS ASSOCIATION SPECIALS.—COPYEIOHT.J ■ . NEW CALEDONIA. FRENCH GOVERNMENT WARNED. MELBOURNE CENTENNIAL EXHIBITION. UNFRIENDLY ATTITUDE OF THE IRISH-AMERICANS. NEW HEBRIDES QUESTION. THE CONFERENCE. TONGAN AFFAIRS. London, May 5. ' The French Budget Committee havo warned the Government of the c peril in sending further recidiyistee to New Caledonia, also that the evil done to that colony will be irreparable if free emigrants are not sent there.

Applications for space at the Melbourne Centennial Exhibition from British manufacturers are numerous.

May 6th. !Mr Edward Langton, of Melbourne, is attending the sittings of the Public Accounts Committee of the House of Commons, at tho invitation of Sir' John Lubbock.

; There are signs that the Irish-Americans aremakingpreparationsfor a dynamite campaign. : The Standard justifies the impatience of the Conference delegates with regard to the New Hebrides, but considers, from the attitude of'the Marquis of Salisbury, that it is obvious that the question requires very careful treatment to effect a settlement, and sparing French dignity without making it intolerable to Australia.

Mr Syme, of the Melbourne Age, writes to the Morning Chronicle reviewing the New Hebrides dispute, and protests against the apathy shown by the Colonial Office. Le Temps to-day makes a proposal that the garrison at the New Hebrides should be replaced by a police force established by a French company, the French Government granting a subvention of thirty thousand francs.

SirF. D. Bell personally is favorable to tho cession of the New Hebrides, providing France : will agree to discontinue sending convicts to New Caledonia. The refusal of Vie colonies to accept a compromise has blocked everything. The general results of the Conference have created a favorable impression. • Sir Henry Holland says nothing can be dono with reference to the Tonjpn affair until the report of Governor Mitohell, of Fiji, has been received. .