TELEGRAPHIC.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 4614, 10 April 1893, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC.

[Spboial to Pbess Association. » OBITUARY. LONDON Asraax. 8. Sir Edwin Dash wood,, who was bora in Nelson, New Zealand in October, 1854, is dead. VICTORIA. Miss Shaw, in one of heir letters to the Times on. Victoria,, states that a Colony possessing such wealth in the back country, combined with the energy already shown) oaonot be regarded as suffering an jv inextricable financial embarrassment. The country districts, she states,, are- perfectly sound, and offer an outle&fo* English and Victorian enterprises The letter adds that tie supreme need) of all the Australasian Colonies is- no-fc money, but population. QUEENSLAND) POEEKCS. BRISBANE* Apbh. 9. Sir Charles Lilley k in an eketioneer.ing address, made a powerful attack. oa Kanaka labour and land gsants foe the construction of railway^. Be Btyla j the^ latter system aa an enactment ftfc tho. benefit of Bellerß of sorap), gambler b and-s eyodicateß. He considers it a dao geroasinstrument, and that ifc w^ald otetAe v;asb estates aad a moaoptoly oi railvpa'fs, toiJbe--worked by Aeiatics^Ajf ri<jans and Jianaies» Black labour he believaa wouJ^. exclude. Queensland from an, Australian federation. CABDHSfitlk MORAB^. SYDNEY, ApESfcA Cardinal Moran Las sailed fior Some. AQ.^ATIC. MBLBOURNR, As!wn.9k. The XTfliversHy eight-oar "race was won by Melbourne, S-jdaey second, Adelaide third. ____„__,_.