CABLE NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 233, 4 September 1883, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

THE PACIFIC ANNEXATION J| QUESTION. GROUNDING OF A MAIL i STEAMER. (by electric telegraph- -copyright.) (SPFCIAL TO UNITED PJJBSS ASSOCIATION.) London, August 31. The official inquiry into circumstances connected with the sinking of the steamer Austral m Fort Jaukson TiiW commence on the 24th instant. The St. James' Gazette warns the Government not to jresiat thejiemands made by the A ustralian colonies ver specting the annexation , of Islands m the PaciGc. * . . 1 ~Tbe Nineteenth Century contends that it is the duty of the Liberals to avert the separation of the coloneis.' The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Ganges is ashore at Lake Tamaab, m the Suez Canal. Tbtf Mirzapore, another of the Company's* steamers, will proceed with the Australian mails, and passengers. \^ The collection of native curiosities exhibited by the Victorian Board 'for the Protection of Aborigines. & similar collection ! bytlie Government of Wfestern Australia, and Krutmaye's gold exhibit, have each received , a,dipl6ma_ of honor at the'~Am^terdamrßxhibUibn. Ooldlmedah have been also awarded to the Melbourne and the W estern Companies for preserved toeat. ; The Statist scrougly deprecates sjny extension of influence: m the Pacific. 1 -i • ■•■- •' V- - 1 | The Ganges has been floated off uninjured. |