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Manawatu Times, Volume VIII, Issue 369, 20 September 1883, Page 3

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t '* '"■ '■-■-'■ ■*-.--:'" s : ~~~ (Beuter's Telegrams.) , h ■I :" ' r ~ Sydney, Sept 19. Probate on the will of the late Vaughanr -was'r;g^anteft"toNdayj the property being sworn at> pf38j51,825. ' - -'. ■:-:::■:- _~;~-r ; . :i . *'?? jA large attendance is ■ expected- at S^?fit^Mary's Cathedral . jwhen Bishop Eedwobd willdelivei; LV.-.a panegyric upon the deceased pre- .■"•■' # .lßte^- : :. ; ■ ■"'*;■■!; .' ' Brisbane, this 'dfcyj. :■; f r « • ; »n l g- emigpiajijijg-^y the steamship • Duke* of Westmihster,- placed; m " quarantine for smallpox, will bejre'iion Monday. " j *%; Melbourne, Sept 19. I^^; In .Jthe Legislative Assembly thia ~'~ evening, Mr Service, Premier, _re- % plying to a question, took occasion to --••remark that Lord Derby completely failed to appreciate the importance ta Australia of the deportation of c- : French convict* to * the Pacific Islands. He declared that if Eng<* land permitted this deportation,: the ■4 jv.TOoJonies would themselves be obliged :•-:* to devise means for .preyenting-the ?i:<( convictß landing r on their ehdres. pro['ll posal to populate tKe^th'e^ Pacific telaftdb witb criniinfils $6$ French ; cities was cpn^aVy ; tip~ ' jthegftcknoTO"*": ledged principles; pi^tjitjßi;nationaß Cojmiby,and justifies theabrogati^n of any agreement bei^ween the English and French Governments with regatd to those Islands. A debute on

the question named, on the motion, for adjournment, various speakers unanimously declaring that such a calamity must be : averted by any. means. . ■ . '' Copenhagen, Sept. 18. , The Czar ' of Russia and King : Christian were efttertained to-day at lunch by Mr Gladstone on bodrd his yacht.* %Mr Gladstone sailed later m the day for the Coast of Norway. ' London Sept. 19. The Daily Times in -its issue this morning publishes an article strongly urging the British Government to take steps to exclude French convict trroin the Australian colonies.* : . - J -/ £ond6n, Rept 19. : •News has 'been received from the West ; Cdaat. of^ Africa, .that 'tribal hostilities have again broken 6 ut m Asnaiitee: ; A' severe battle has beeia fo^gfit : Bkt I ''C64ma^Biia*ißßultih'g"j(n tile defe^f th (^ta|^ent|^f Kin| C^icalli," w nio suffered great' slaughter, and has been compelled to retreat from 'the capitaVtb w ards the country p ? ccuj)ied by. the Gamans, one of the tribes deypted r tp the King,- \