ENGLISH AND FOREIGN.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XVII, Issue 5206, 3 November 1883, Page 2

ENGLISH AND FOREIGN.

[by electric telegraph — copyright.] (reuter's telegrams. ) Received Nov 2. 2.15 p.m. CHANGES in the FRENCH MINISTRY. PATtia, Nov 1. — It is announced that M. Ferry, President of tho Council Ministers, will shortly assume the position of Minister for Foreign Affairs, Challeinol Lacour having resigned that portfolio. Received Nov 3, 1 5 a.m. CONVERSION OF -QUEENSLAND DFBENTURES. London, Nov I.— lt is announced that the Queensland Government has arranged with the Bank of England for the conversion into inscribed stock of £2,600,000 of 5 per cent debentures issued in May last. THF MADAGASCAR DIFFICULTY. Telegrams to hand from Zanzibar state that the Hova? are evincing a desire to come to terms with the French, and- recently offered to treat for cossition of hostilities, The offer was accepted by Admiral Gal'abar, and negotiations are now proceeding. (SPECIAL TO PRESS ASSOCIATION.) London, Oct 31. — Patrick Heley-Hutchi-son, recently appointed Torpedo Lieutenant in the Victorian navy, will proceed out in command of the new Victorian gunboat Childers. General Mc'lvor, in writing to the press respecting his expedition to New Guinea, states that if Lord Derby interferes in his departure he will host a foreign flag. He has offered to take missionaries with him. .News from Africa has been received stafcng that a report is circulated to the effect that M. De Brazza, the French explorer, had been killed at Libreville in a fight among the natives. The Prince of Wales, at the closing of tha Fisheries Exhibition, expressed a wish that the British-Colonial Exhibition, to be held at South Kensington in 1886, will result in the establishment of a permanent Colonial Museum in London, m sueli an institutioa would be of great benefit to the colonies. Sir Charles Dilke, speaking at Glasgow, stated that the colonists of Australia could make their minds easy as regards the foreign occupation of New Guinea, and that he was confident that Australia would be able to succeed in its efforts to prevent the exportat.on of convicts to the colonies without having to annex the whole of Polynesia. The Marquis of Hartingtoti, in his address at Buxloo, admitted that if the French were at war with China, it would require all England's forbeaiance and friendship to prevent serious complications arising with France. A rebellion which has taken plac 1 among the natives of South Khartum, Eastern Africa, has been isolated through the efforts of the Soudan army. The directors of the Wellington and Manawatu Railway Company iuvite te* ders for a loan amounting to £360,000 at par. The tendera are announced to close on 9th November. London, Nov. 1. — It is believed that El Mahdi, the Soudan Prophet, has been ; killed. M. Ferry has stated that France intends to retain Tonquin, aud has c ij>tured Sontag and Bectrink. M. Turow has telegraphed to h>s Government that Letung Chang has disavowed the action of the Marqivs Tseng, as bringing the Chinese Legation into discredit. TheLondm Times expreaseci pleasure at what it terms the new departure of the colonies in regard to the Pacific annexation question, and expresses its belief that no Government would ever attempt to thwart the plan of a United Australasia. It ridicules General M 'lvor's scheme and statements. O'Donovan Rossa bas announced that more Fenian outrages are imminent in England. The natives of New Guinea have, through 1 Baron Maeley, requested the protection of Great Britain. A Sydney resident, writing to the Pall Mall Gazette, says that statesmen are beginning to mistrust the annexation policy, as people in the colonies appear to be careless in the matter.