AUSTRALIAN CABLE.

Timaru Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 2766, 4 August 1883, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN CABLE.

[Per Electric Tslegraph — CopnuoHr.J [ReUTEB'b AaENCY.J [Received 1 p.m., August 3rd.j Melbourne, Aug. 3. In the General Assembly last night Mr ! Service stated the Government had been advised that it was impossible to deal legally with the supposed Irish informers. , It had consequently been decided if tbeir j identity was complete, to prevent their , landing here. It was believed there were . altogether ten on board the Pathan. [ That vessel had left Adelaide at daylight, and would be intercepted at the Heads and inspected by the police. Her destination was Sydney. It is announced that King Kalakua, of 1 the Hawaiian Islands, will visit Australia 1 shortly. Adelaide, Aug. 3. The local papers, m leading articles, have severely condemned the attitude which the Government has adopted on the annexation .question. [Eeoeired 10 p.m., August 3rd. | ' Sydney, Aug. 3. An application for a new trial m the i libel case of Anderson v. the proprietors . of the Sydney Morning Herald has been refused. Proceedings are now about to . be instituted against the proprietors of the Herald and Echo for contempt of • Court on account of attacks made upon ' Justice Innes, who tried the above--3 mentioned case, by thoae papers m com- ' menting upon the rcßult of the trial. ' Arrived, last night — Union Steamship " Hauroto, from Wellington. ' Sailed, this afternoon — Tarawera, for Auckland.