STANLEY'S EXPEDITION TO SUCCOUR EMIR BEY.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1481, 12 February 1887, Page 3

STANLEY'S EXPEDITION TO SUCCOUR EMIR BEY.

An English paper of reoent data contains the following m referonon to the relief expedition : — "The expedition now be-ng fitted out for the succour ond withdrawal of Emir Boy from the Equatorial Provinces cf Africa will, it ia understood, have (full countenance and assistance from Her Majoßly'a Government. The Governm' nn have given orders that tho Brltidi Oonaul-General m the Cameroono, Mr Johnston, and the British representative m Z inzbar eha'l give every assistance to the mission now forming, by providing detitilß of the country and the peoples through which the expedition will pass. Sir John Kirk, Hfer Majesty's representative at the Court of the Soltan of Zmzibar, who 1b on leave, has given moat important assistance. Mr H M. Stanley will, according to present arrangements, command the expedition, and a telegram from him was received m London ou December 14, giving indications of his ace ptanoa of the tadk fie Informs the projectors of the expedition that, weather permitting, ho will leave New York m the steamship Elder, and will arive m England o> the 22nd Deoember. The fitting out of the evpedltion is to be left entirely to the oelebrated traveller, and the Btreugth of the force, which must be paoifia, will also be left to his great knowledge of the country whloh he will have to traverse. These matters, therefore, will for a time deity the starting *>f the relief expedition to a date not two months distant. The money needed Cor such an nod rtakiog is naturally the prlnoipal matter, but it m stated that this h»8 been overcome by the generality of a gentleman, w; o, wuh the Miiittnoe of the Egyptian Govern tnent, which has sanctioned the Bxpnn«'i* ture of £10,000, will under ink» ths futfi - mtnt of all monetary obligations. Mr H. M. Stanley, on hia arrival 1m Fn.v land, will at onoe '.enter up<m hi* duties of arranging the dispos ; ticn and oh<m»oter of the foroe (n be placed undor him, and with the assistanoo of the Xi g • f the Belgians, there is every hop« that Mr Stanley will be aucoeaafal m ot» ryng ont the wishes of the pr -j. otora ot the expedition. Tbe British Geogr»phioal Society Ii greatly interesting itself m the mission, and every endeavor will be made by its members to assist m th > venture The safety of Emir B<y will add greatly to the store <>f impxtant geographical data of the < qnatorlal provinces, an it is we 1 known that Emir Bey 1b a clone soieatific obsetv^r of nil the* peculiarities of the oooutry which he is now holdinc