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The following messages have been published in the Melbourne Age : —
In spite of the prohibition issued by the Imperial Government against General M'lvor attempting to go further with his scheme for the colonisation of New Guinea, the promoter still continues making preparations for the development of his proposal. He has now purchased a steamer for tho transport of intending colonists to tbat country. The Marquis Tseng has entered a formal protest against the French making an attack upon tho town of Backninh at a time when negotiations were pending between France and China with a view to the peaceable settlement of the Anam difficulty. It is reported that Monsignor Capel is to be appointed to succeed the late Archbishop Vaughan at Sydney. The Bonapartist. faction at Paris intends to bring an impeachment against M. Ferry, the French Premier.
Rumours which have gained somo consistency are current in London that it is the intention of the King of Portugal to abdicate at an early date, but the news requires official confirmation.
Lord Derby has written a letter to Mr Murray Smith explaining the reasons which induced the Imperial Government to refuse the petitions for the annexation of New Guinea. He refers to the Annexation and Federation Conference to be held at Sydney, and states that should the Conference unanimously affirm the desirability of annexation the Imperial Government will be prepared to reconsider their decision. Lord Derby, however, declines to suggest the conditions under which annexation should be effected, and expresses his inability to furnish an estimate of the expense involved in executing the proposals referred to in his dispatch of July 11. In consequence of the threats uttered by the dynamite party in Canada against the Marquis of Lansdowno, the Dominion authorities bave exercised special vigilance, and additional precautions are to bo taken. The discovery at (Quebec of a dynamite plot to assassinate his Excellency is alleged.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 6780, 7 November 1883, Page 3
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