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Manawatu Times, Volume IX, Issue 1120, 6 December 1883, Page 3

VERY LATEST.

-Renter's Telegrams. J.I Lorrabn,Dec. 5. . ! The Expedition sanctioned by the i Roy Society is now being organised for the purpose of exploring ;>New Guinea, and is enacted to start at an early date. to hand from Zanzibar the bombardment of JMala* gasey coast towns is again being resumed toy -■ Admiral Galliber, and that the French war vessels have ■helled seferal'places on the • north and south coasts of Madagascar. The^ rtpbrt cnrrent yesterday that a peerage would shortly be offered to Tennyson is now confirmed. « - • ' j #4 Capetown, Dec' 4. i News is 1 to hand from Basutoland j to th|^Eect*jthat the native tribes have agreedJ'to accept the Imperial rule,, and that the chiefs have tendered their submission to the ] Britis^alathorities. PerJlerchaht ; Shipping Tinders {writers' Association : — London, Dec. 4. — Arrived, yesterday, steamship Fenstanton, from Lytteltgn, Oci. 10, with a cargo of 8000 frozen sheep. Melbourne, Dec. 5. Sailed, this morning, Union steam-, •hip frlihofa, f orJ the Bluff. fc ' Albany, Dec 5. ThM*. &0. steamship Shannon, with the inward mails via Suez and Brindis'i, dated London, Nov. 3, Arrived 'a,t JEJing George's Sound this afternoon. 'il % ...... Sydney, Dec. 5. At tluS. meeting of the Conference to-day, a draft imperial hill for de* fining the constitution and functions of • the proposed Australasian Federal Council was under consideration, and occupied the whole after* noon. The first seven clauses of the Bill were disposed of at the meeting which then adjourned. A- Durban, Natal, Dec 4 is reported that Cetewayo is to at Ulundi, with a British President there. Some British troops remain m Zululand until quiet is assumed. mT Sydney, This day. A tele g tarn was read at the Gbnvention yesterday announcing that France lays clainvto the following islands or gronpesM the Pacific -.—New Caledonia lx>yaltie^; Marqueiesf (eleven islands) Societies]^ Tahiti, Moarea, ";' Low Ar* ebipelago— eighty islands— Australs, and Lubnai, Koito and Rapa. France is willing that the Leward Is'ands near Tahiti, should be independent.