The Ashburton Guardian. Magna est Veritas et Prævalebit. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1889. STANLEY AND EMIN BEY.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 2276, 9 November 1889, Page 2

The Ashburton Guardian. Magna est Veritas et Prævalebit. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1889. STANLEY AND EMIN BEY.

It was with general satisfaction that news of (Stanley was received a few days ago, and it is still more satisfactory to find that news has since arrived from Stanley himself. It appears that the intrepid explorer, accom panied by Emm Bey, has made his way to within some three hundred miles of the coast, which he expects to reach m January, and no doubt he will do it. Just as he found Livingstone m the heart of Africa, so he has reached Emiu Boy, and is now returning with him successful m this his third, great mission after encountering enormous difficulties. Of the reasons for and history of this last expedition of the most remarkable explorer of modern times, an exchange bays : — " Emm Bey (Dr bchnitzler; is an Austrian by birth, who, entering the service of the Turkish (»overumenf| was for some years at work m Armenia, fc*yria, and Arabia* Then he joined the Egyptian army as a surgeon and was ordered to Khartoum, where ho served under General Gordon. In 1878 he was appointed Governor of the Equatorial Province of Egypt, better known as the Soudan. He held his own there during the Mahdi war till 1886, when he was obliged to apply for help, 'lhe relief expedition which left m answer to this application, was placed under the command of H. M. Stanley, Administrator of the Congo Free btate, and known all over the world as the (discoverer of Livingstone. Emm Bey'B chief station waß Wadelai, on Lake Albert JSyanza, on which he had two email steamers. laking with him a considerable armed native force, Stanley proceeded up the Congo, and itß great tributary the Aruwuimi; whence he marched overland to the Lake. We heard some months ago of his meeting with Emm Bey, who was wiih difficulty persuaded to return, with bis people, under the protection ot Stanley and his armed men to the East Coast. Stanley'B party endured great privations, and had much fighting m getting to Albert Nyanza ; and it will be remembered that Major Barttelot, whom he left m charge of a military station on the Congo, was killed. Iho long missing Emm will now be soon at Zanzibar with btanley and his people, and we shall then havo more full accounts of his lonely and perilous governorship during the last twelve years. Stanley will have added another branch to the laurels with which he is already crowned." It appears that Emm Pasha and Jephson had been prisoners since August 18 of last year, and that had Stanley not reached them before the end of December, help would have been useless. Of course Stanley arrived m time — he alwayß doeß — but there are no particulars yet as to how he effected the release of the captives. These particulars will be eagerly looked for, and will no doubt prjve to be full of stirriag incideuts. Suffice it for the present to know that both Stanley and Emm Bey are safe and likely to return to civilisation shortly, when they will bo able to tell a story infinitely more romantic than any romance which has ever been written.