The Niger.
The cruisers Theseus (7850 torn, 12 guns) and Forte (4860 tons, 10 guns), of the Channel Squadron, haye. been dispatched to West Africa, in view of she trouble in the Niger Protectorate.
News has been received that Abubokari, King, of Nape — the country some 400 miles up the river Niger, against t which the Royal Niger Company is sending an expedition—has massed 15,000 troops at Rabba, one of the principal towns of his kingdom, with the object of coercing the natives under the protection of the Niger Company.
Owing to the notoriously unhealthy climate of the Niger coast, it has been decided to despatch tbe hospital ship Malacca to Benin on Saturday for the use of tbe member? of the different expeditionary forces about to operate there. The Malacca will be manned by 120 marines, eight surgeons and 125 medioal attendants.
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Manawatu Herald, 21 January 1897, Page 2
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143The Niger. Manawatu Herald, 21 January 1897, Page 2
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