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Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue III, 31 December 1891, Page 2

Wool Sale. « The Loan and Mercantile Agenoy Com- i pany held another very successful wool sale at their offices, Feathers ton -street, Wellington, on Monday, December 28th, when the following prices were realised for some '■ of the lots:— MMX, Shannon, 6d; GH, sd ; Southdown, 7|d, pieces, 3|d ; PAI AKA, 1 hoggets, 7£d, pieces, 3|d ; Gol an's Valley, : fine » crossbred, 7|d; GMR, Tokomaru, , crossbred, 7d ; WBTI, orossbred, 6sd ; N , Ohau, pieces, 4£d; Hiwi, Ohau, pieces, 3id ; Wit greasy crossbred, 7id ; SF, 7|d : ! TP, locks, ljd ; Atiki, orossbred ewes, 7d ; I pieces, 4jd; Ohau, WH crossbred, 7d; ' lambs, 7Jd, cotted, s£d, pieces, 3d. ' Formosa. i ♦ . i The information that China is contem- i plating conveying to great Britain the island of Formosa, as a return for an alii- } ance against Russ a, makes it interesting t to know a little more about the place, t Formosa is an island in the Pacific, 90 ( miles from the Chinese coast. The in < habitants are apparently of a aavage disposition, as we find that the Japanese chas. t Used them, in 1874, with the consent of the t ruling Chinese Mandarin, for massacreing r J panese sailors who had settled on the % island.' By British intervention the Japanese withdrew. The troubles in the island c were not by any means concluded, as when c the Chinese rep diated the treaty made 2 with France, recognising the French pro- t tectorate over Annam and Tonquin, Kelung in Formo a was bombarded in 1884, r and the forts destroyed. Later in the same ye r the north and west of Formosa was blockaded. However, in June, 1885, si the French having concluded a peace, ti Formosa was evacuated. ' I: The is and is a large one and lies about j C 300 miles to the north of Hong Kong, and . if Great Britain became possessed of it, it w would be about the most northern territory £ belonging to her in the West Pacific and a tl valuable position from which to watch the v Russian navy. »