TELEGRAMS.

Inangahua Times, Volume VIII, Issue 1282, 8 June 1883, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

(from our own correspondent. ) GISBOIIN, 6. The cost of entertaining the Governor amounts in the aggregate to £80, half borne by the county and half by the borough. One item in the accounts of 10 guineas, for the use of Parnell and Boylan's Hall for luncheon, is adversely commented on. Auckland, 6. The City East Licensing Committee announced to-day that they intended to compel the removal of rid shanties, and that hotels should only be erected which were a credit to the city. -■■ --••--" ■--•■■*■ -"-" r. The University Council has passed a resolution requesting the Government to appoint a Professor of Anatomy, and suggesting that District Judge Smith be appointed law lecturer. It was stated that the Choral Society will contribute towards the establishment of professorship of music. Dunedin, 6. A public meeting, under the auspices of the Otago Trades and Labor Council, is to be held in the Lyceum on Friday evening. It is expected that the city members and several suburban members of Parliament will address the meeting. The subjects to be discussed are the Eight Hours Bill, Corrupt Practices at Elections Bill, Seamen's Franchise, Extension of Polling Hours, Plurality of Voting, and Workmen's Liens. A seaman of the Alastor, from Glasgow, who pleaded guilty of constant disobedience on the passage, was sentenced to-day to twelve months, with hard labor. Oamaru, 6. Mr. Duncan, M.H.R., has been addressing his constituents in a number of places in this district, and in each instance has received a vote of confidence. InVERCARGILL, 6. A very successful movement is beiiig made here* -for- the relief of the distressed inhabitants of the Scottish Highland and Hebrides. As yet only Scotsmen have been appealed to, but there have been handsome results, and it is to be hoped that the movement will be general throughout the Colony. Opunake, 7. The Constabulary guard has again been placed on the bridge south of the township, having been witherawn for some time past. It has been stated that all Maoris going to Parihaka south of Opunake, wili have to cany permits before they are allowed to go through. The Natives complain very bitterly. They say the pakehas treat them like dogs, and might as well shoot them right off. There are many complaints of discontent in consequence of not being permitted to remain in Parihaka. Nelson, 7 The Nelson Railway Committee have protested against any part of the sum on the schedule for the trunk railway north of Amberley being diverted as desired by the Canterbury Railway League. Major Atkinson said it would be a breach of faith with the public creditor to divert money placed on the schedule, and that the Government would not consent to such being done. Wellington, 7. The debentures of the Wellington and Manawatu Kail way Company, amounting to £200,000, together with the 40,000 .shares held in reserve, have been sold in London. The New Zealand Shipping Company have received advice that the steamer Catalioni left Plymouth for Wellington on the sth instant. The Hinemoa will bring clown the Speaker of the House of U.presei.tatives, Sir Maurice O'Rouke, from Auckland, early next week. The Hinemoa will return North to fetch the bulk of the Auckland members, who will probably arrive in Wellington on Monday week. Thc Southern members will come up by the Union Company's steamers. Mr Edward Atkinson, illustrating the advantage of machinery, says it would require 16,000,000 persons, using the spinning wheel and haud-loonis-of less than a century ago, to make the cotton cloth usod by the American people, which is now manufactured by 160,000.

ANNEXATION OF NEW GUINEA 1 . ♦ ; t The- papers received by the 'Frisco t mail make reference to the annexation j of New Guinea by the Queensland Government. The Times, in a lead- , ing article on the question of French . enterprise in North Africa, remarks :* ■* It is, indeed, not a little curious that the same day which saw M. de Les- ( seps formally develop his plan, should have brought us news of an act of a still more adventurous kind, and pregnant with still greater issues, on the part of a colony of our own." After giving Queensland credit for being the most enterprising uf the Australian colonies, and calling attention to its astonishing growth and vitality. the Times adds :— " But few Englishmen suspected that the Queensland Government were planning a stroke of policy that would be likely to take rank amid the boldest acts of the kind ever done by a young community. They saw that another Power was casting covetous eyes upon New Guinea, the vast Northern island which has always loomed upon the "imagination of the Queenslander. 'In order,' said Mr Ashley in the House of Commons on Monday, - to prevent foreign powers from taking possession of New Guinea the Queensland Government has, through the Police Magistrate of Thursday Island, taken formal possession in her Majesty's name pending the decision ofthe Government at home.' Police Magistrates are admirable and versatile officials ; but this, we imagine, must be the first instance in which one of them has been called upon to play the part of a Columbus or a Covtez, and to annex a territory larger than France.' The i Times adds that the act is sure to provoke discussion, and implies that it is doubtful whether the step will be confirmed.