LATEST CABLEGRAMS

Inangahua Times, Volume VIII, Issue 1333, 7 December 1883, Page 2

LATEST CABLEGRAMS

+. . (per reutkr'baqknuy.) (Eeceived Dec. 6, 1-40 p.m.) Durban, Natal, 5. It is reported that Cetewayo is to be reinstated at Ulundi with the British Resident there, some British troops remaining in Zululand until they are quite assured. Received Dec. 6, 1 p.m. Sydney, 6. A telegram was read at the Convention yesterday, announcing that Prance lays claim to the following Islands or Groups in- the Pacific : New Caledonia, Loyalties, Pine, Marquessas (eleven islands), Societies, Tahiti, Moorea, Low Archipelago (eighty islands), Australs, Tubuai, Koito, and Bapa. France is willing that tfce !Ceewara Islands, near Tahiti, should be independent

(Received Dec. 6, 1 a.m.) London, 5. ] An expedition sanctioned by the . < Royal Geographical Society is now 1 1 being organised for the purpose of ex- i ploring New Guinea, and is expected j ' to start at an early date. Telegrams to hand from Zanzibar report that the bombardment of Malagasy, a coast town, has again been resumed by Admiral Gallibar, and that the French war vessels have shelled places on the north and south coasts of Madagascar. The report current yesterday that a peerage will shortly be offered to Tennyson is now confirmed. Capetown, 4. News is to hand from Basutoland to the effect that the Native tribes have agreed to accept Imperial rule, and that the chiefs are under submission to the British authorities. London, 4. Arrived. — Fenstanton, from Lyttelton, October 10, with a cargo of 8000 frozen sheep. Melbourne, 5. • The Shamon with the inward mails via Suez and Br ndisi, dated London November 2nd, arrived at King George's Sound this afternoon. v :,..„. ...._.„., „. 6. At a meeting of the Conference today a draft Imperial Bill for defining the constitution and functions of the proposed Australian Federal Council was under consideration, and occupied the whole afternoon. The first seven clauses of the Bill were disposed of, and the meeting then adjourned. Received Dec. 6, 4*25 p.m. Sydney, 6. The remaining clauses of the Federation Bill were under discussion at the Convention this morning. General agreement exists among the delegates regarding the principles of the measure, which is expected to be unanimously adopted to-morrow.