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Patea Mail, Volume IX, Issue 1059, 13 July 1883, Page 3

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HOME AND FOREIGN. [REUTER— COPYRIGHT. ] (Received July 13, 1.5 a.m.) : LONDON, July 12. In the House of Commons last night, Earl Carnarvon referring in the course of his speech to the proposed annexations! New Guinea, strongly urged the Government to accede to the request of the Australian Colonies, and declared that the annexation of the Island by Great Britain would ultimately, be inevitable. (Received July 13, 15 p.m.) LONDON, July 12. At a meeting of British shipowners held in London to-day, a resolntion: was. passed condemning, as one-sided, the agreement concluded between, the English Government and Count de Lesseps for the construction of the second Suez Canal. The resolution further declared that England’s position was in no way improved by the agreement. ALEXANDRIA, July 12. The cholera epidemic continues to spread throughout the country. Several deaths have occurred in places in the neighbourhood of Cairo, and it is feared that the plague will spread to that city. AUSTRALIAN. .. [REUTER—COPYRIGHT.] (Received July 13, 1.5 a.m.) SYDNEY, July 12. Latest advices to hand from Fiji report that on the 30th ult. a number of sailors and coolies who were detained in quarantine at Suva succeeded in effecting their escape. All, however, were recaptured, and had no communication with the natives of the Island.