NEW GUINEA.

Evening Star, Issue 4091, 6 April 1876, Page 4

NEW GUINEA.

ti „ J.bsf r.oji-.M Some very interesting. despatches on' ;the; /New. Guinea question have just been laid before Parliament (according to the March 4). His Lordship declines at present- ter do anyUiing intherway of colonising New .Qwpea.- /.tie sees no Imperial object to be it sufficient I 'SiiaQ in 'taxing the people; ;of -Greatc {Britain^ ; and lib has received assurances from all the Great they have no wish or intention‘'f6 s the island,, But the gisf 'df the despatches turns on the questiofr of dolonial contributions tp works of this kind. t . „. Ttie , refusal of , the Colonies to help-in the matter of Fiji seems to his Lordship, to indicate a "brpyeht 'ibe British GoveriWehb from doing nexatidn -at;,' the {requestoorf r the Colonists, and *he 1 submits that with 4 outgrowing revenues we ought not- to be unwilling, to consider some plan of coJ operation; 1 The subject has Ae ver come befdre our Parliament for consideration, but our two leaders, Mr Parkea and Mr Bobertson, have hitherto differed-somewhat in the views they have expressed. Mr Parkes leaned a little 1 Awards giving assistance towards the Government of Fiji. Mr Bobertson as r good as declined any money help at, all, seeing ~that the Colonies could not have a voice in the 'Government of Polynesian ‘ acquisitions. jll^pan.while, the citizens of Sydney have npw an opportunity of showing a, „ little private zeal with referenee tb the exploration of. New Gulped ”' r , 1 tir E ‘ D’Albeitis ik n;dw in ’ and is prepared; to undertake an expedition up the Fly Biver. ' object ; &togo as far as he can by* water, and then strike across, the, country to his eld posk at Yule IslancfA-Bttt his private means are not- 1 He will give his - personal set vices-' fretely, but through Dr Bennett he asks the Sydney pubHc v td provide' the necessary outfit, inclirdftig,* amongst other 1 things, a steam-launch.-;c to bo set on® foot'-fed v ritfteuS/fch.e 'accessary funds.' ■-"■ ’' w* r ' '■ ■ *Mm w