SPECIAL CABLEGRAMS.

Kumara Times, Issue 2583, 2 October 1884, Page 2

SPECIAL CABLEGRAMS.

[special to press association.]

London, September 23. The Australian cricketing team declined to play a match at Bombay on their way home.

Mr Henry Forbes is maturing plans for exploring the south-eastern portion of New Guinea.

Sir Gavati Duffy, in writing to the Pall Mall Gazette, urges that a dissolution is the simplest remedy for the present political deadlock in England. The two gunboats constructed for the the Queensland Government have made a trial trip, at which they averaged knots per hour. The guns were also tested, with excellent results. September 25. Mr Murray Smith, Agent-General for Victoria, is endeavouring to arrange with the various Agenls-General to act unitedly in requesting Lord Derby and Mr Gladstone to prevent foreign Powers from further acquiring any territory in the Pacific or south of the equator, as such is both premature and annoying to the colonies. The recent announcement of further large colonial loans being placed in. the

market have had a disturbing influence j on the money market. j September 27. I All the Agents-General, with the exception of Sir Saul Samuel, are asking Lord Derby for a definite reply in regard to the Pacific question. They also request the extension of an effective jurisdiction to the other islands of the Pacific as well as to New Guinea. M. Le Veilles' mission to Cayenne is regarded as an important indication of the policy of the Recidivistes Bill. Sir F. Dillon Bell has been requested to continue the office of Agent-General for New Zealand. In monetary circles there is a strong feeling in favor of the universal in. scribing of colonial loans. The Economist cautions New South Wales against excessive borrowing. The German Colouial Society is urging the Reichstag to subsidise a line of steamers to Australia. September 29. The Foreign agitators are fomenting a republican rising in Brussels, and domiciliary searches by the police are frequent in consequence. Mr Gladstone, speaking at Carlisle, denied that the fall of the House of Lords would involve that of the Crown. He said if the Franchise Bill was passed the redistribution of seats would be proceeded with immediately. The dangerous symptoms which were manifested in the condition of Lord Rosebery, who recently broke his col-lar-bone, have now subsided.

The Earl of Carnarvon complains that the Government have not carried out the suggestions made by the Colonial Defence Commission.

September 28. The Times states that the French Senate is almost certain to improve the Recidiviste Bill in the autumn unless incensed by the Australian outcry.