LATEST CABLEGRAMS

Inangahua Times, Volume VIII, Issue 1298, 17 September 1883, Page 2

LATEST CABLEGRAMS

(per reuter's agency. ) (Received September 15, 1 a.m.) Sydney, 14. Sailed — Wairarapa, for Auckland, Arrived — Wakatipu, from Wellington. Melbourne, 14. The following are "the highest weights for the Oaulfield Cup, to be run for at the Victorian Amateur Turf Clnb meeting on October 20th :— Sting, 9st 7Tb ; Pellmell, 9et 51b ; Sir Modred, 9st 51b. London, 14. . Gladstone, who for some time past has been yachting on the Scotch coast, has sailed for Norway. Doctor Connelly, who, with his brother, was arrested at Limerick on August 22nd, charged with conspiracy to murder, has been committed for trial. (Received Sept. 15, 12.30 p.m.) Hong Kong, 14; News has been recieved that hostilities have been resumed between the French troops and an Anamite force known as " Black Flags." Accounts to hand state that fighting, lasting for fully eight hours, recently, took place at Whoukai. The engagement was a very severe one, and resulted in the loss of 52 to the French, the "Black Flags " are reported to have lost fully 50 men. Latest intelligence from Canton states the Europeans in that city are very uneasy in consequence of violent anti-foreign placards which have been extensively posted there. Received Sept. 15, 2.10 p.m. Melbourne, 15. The Agents-General London, telegraphs to Service that the Coloniel Office has replied to the joint letter of the Colonial Agents-General on the subject of the proposed annexation in

?■/'/■: „S..— ~ the Pacific. The reply is deemed unsatisfactory? 1 Derby admits the care and ability displayed in the preparation of the historioal!fitatement,;w;hich was referred; to the, consideration of Sir Arthurif Gordon anoj;,the Admirality, -but doufcts Whether so much .imports p*evailJ3 in Australia regarding the xlftims ' Qf foreign powers as the Agents^General apprehend : 'fS&moa and Tonga haveheen long recognised as independent, and moreover, France,since 187,8, had respected the independence of New Hebrides, thrdugh the. position of the latter in relation to the foreign Powers be ignofedr~«Referring to the Solomon Islands, Derby expressed the opinion that the Colonial Govern tnents have hardly considei*ed the responsibility attaching to their as.snmption. . The Imperial Government ' 13 s not satisJieVl ; th^acfthe annexation is. necessary or justifiable. His Lordshap says he has nothing to add concerning New Guinea, and. concludes by stating that if the Colonial Governments desire to bear the cost of the measures proposed in the Agents-General's memorandum, and will confer and make a proposal concerning the other islands 1 not subject, to -treaty, such proposal will receive jllie attention of the Government. ' ' *■ Received Septdfcber 16, 10*50 a.m. • : H ng Kong 15. Sir George Bowen, Governor of this Colony, has gone to Pekin, but nothing has yet. transpired as to the motive of his. mission.. , . Sydney, 15. Laycock has met with an accident, by which his leg has been broken, and he has consequently found it necessary to terminate negotiations which were proceeding for the match with Hanlon.