HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 30, 3 August 1895, Page 2

HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

THE BOERS and THEIR VICTIMS.

| Per Press Association \ London. August 2. At the Geographical Congress Professor Kan, of Amsterdam, read a paper on exploration in Western New Guinea. ! He declared the Dutch Geographical ■ Society hoped shortly to survey the j south coast between Skroe and 141 degrees. David Lindsay read a paper on unexplored Australia. He believed an expedition to central Australia and along the western watershed would repay the cost. A prolonged enquiry on behalf of the Anti-Slavery Society has produced a report to the effect that sixty thousand lives are sacrificed every year in supplying Zanzibar and Arabia with slaves. The Post hopes that the other colonies will imitate the action of the New Zealand Government in supporting the Pacific cable. The Morning Post commends Mr Turner, Premier of Victoria, on the manner in which he is grappling with the finances of the colony. A letter to the Daily Chronicle states that General Joubert, commanding a large party of Boers and native allies, attacked a native stronghold north of the Transvaal territory, killed eighteen, and exhibited their heads as trophies. Five thousand natives, including women and children, were driven towards Pretoria, and the roadway strewn with the bodies of those who died from starvation.