LONDON.
September 10. It is reported that British officials have removed the flagstaff and the German Hug which Dr. Nachtigal, the African explorer, recently formally hoisted at Cameron's, one of the calling stations of the African steamship Company, on the west coast of Africa. The report has occasioned considerable excitement.
The French fleet under the command of Admiral Courbct is now coaling at Yesso or Matsmai, ono of the largest Japanese Islands on which coal of good quality is mined and exported. The Chinese declaration of Avar against France is informal, as the Chinese Government neglected to 'inform the Great Powers of the step which they had taken. September 11. The Russian squadron in Chinese waters have left Chcfoo, a Chinese port opened to foreign trade in ISGI, and it is believed that the vessels are to be employed as a menace to China. 11.M.5. Nckon is to remain as flag-ship on the Australian station, but her crew is to be replaced by anew crew which will shortly embark in the Tamar. It is rumored that Lord Carlingford will resign his position in the Ministry as Lord President of the Council and Lord of the Privy Seal, and succeed the late Baron Ampthill aa Ambassador at Berlin. September 12. Earl Rosebery yesterday addressed the Trades Congress at Aberdeen, and referred to the importance of Imperial federation. He also expressed his astonishment at the fact that in Victoria, where trade unionism is so popular, and has been carried out so effectually, no attempt has been made to give it a legal status. September 15. A fund is now being raised towards the defence of the survivors of the Mignonette, who wore charged with killing and eating a boy named Parker, who accompanied them in the boat when the yacht was abandoned. Sir Stafford Northcote is now in Scotland giving a series of addresses on political questions in Mr Gladstone's constituency. The Times this morning assorts that the Crown lias an undoubted right to all the gold found in Victoria.
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 4110, 23 September 1884, Page 3
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