EUROPEAN NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 51, 29 January 1884, Page 2

EUROPEAN NEWS.

(age specials ) (v ited press association) «■«*„..( Per Mauappuri, at the Blj^ff.) London, January 15. It is 'reported that El Ma'hdi and. his follower have approached towards the White Nile which separates the Soudan from Egjpl Proper, and have occupied' Sthiir, Granary, Khartoum, and other places. - : t . Specimens of insects which infest vines, forwarded from Victoria to I^on- [ don, have U§Bn subjected to "a most .*ilu>r6ugh and searching examination by competent judges, and their x*epbrbs on ' the subject state 1 that the insects -are' undoubtedly phylloxera, and they advise that the roots' of all infected vines should be promptly destroyed and the grouud burut, submerged, or saturated with bi-s ul phide of carbon. "When either of the measures have been taken, it is also reconi mended as a strict condition that the ground shall, remain disused for several years. ; ; have been, made to, Mr Fawcett, Postmaster-General, to delay sending Victorian Jetters by the Orient steamers unless specially marked for transmission I>y these liners. He has refused to comply with the request, but? to ?niake' inquiry infco^ the matter, 'with "the view of ascertaining" what readjustment' Victoria needed to equalise the P. and O. with the Orient service. •: It was generally credited that Sir H. Ptobinson, Governor of Cape Colony, would be appo'nted to succeed the Margins of Normanby as Governor of Victoria, but doubts are now enter--1 tamed as to whether he cari,!)e spared from his present post. Earl Derby has received a communication from Baron Macklay m which : ~he advocates the annexation -of New Guinea by the British Q-o.venim.enfc.