CABLE NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 235, 6 September 1883, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

TO NE^ GUfNEA. ;:Li.an»nexa™n quebtion. i ■■•*:! i THE (^F^DA ERUPTION.

•' y l FRaMsiAND CHffffA-.^' R ' : ' ;i ' V wiiRi^EVITABIiE. •,....,., _^'^; -■•■■ i (by electric telegraph- -copyright.; (S&QIA^Td'vM'eBD PBBSS ASSOCIATION.) London, September 4, A Servian general is attempting to organise a cjuasi-ntahtary English trading' expedition to New Guinea. .. ~,^>j t , Australian jhops are ijTOtedjat^.Jl^, per cwt. i ~ ..... Mr Latiohlan McKinnon, one of th^ propritors of theljfelbourne Argus, m a' .letter., to the Standard, warns Xord Derby that the refusal of the Imperial Goverriineiit'to a'nriex the Pacific Islands Will lay the' founditiDnloddiscontent fcnti | distress among the colonies, ultimately; resulting m separation. Tbe Standard I considers that the meetings held iri | Australia^ m... regard to the annexation; question shows ,£hat the threats mad^ by' the 1 cplpnieß m i reference -to— it are not merely idle l OneS. •"" '■■" '"" : ( , ;>; _;.. : j vri The recent volbanic eruptions at Jara having changed the; Straits of San^^nd endangered navigaiion, ' me Admiralty have ordered that a jurv.ey be m^:withoutd elay;;;';;v^: : T " r ' f ' l',' J .;.";,'Tf".r. ' i ' An extension of ;he Austro»German Alliance has been rrranged, ., ' „, . . The despa ;ches receijre4, from Hongkong state that relations between •China France are dailyj" becoming ■ino'j-e) strained, and thai war between those countries is inevitable. Tjie Chinese aie sending a large number o^reinf preen ments to Cantpn; / i '[']..' . i