West Africa.
Colonel McCallum, Governor of Lagoa, has .ff j cted a settlement of the longstanding f< ud between thp kings of tbn inland countries cf Borgu and Yoruba, whose territory i? concerned in the present; frictioi wRb Prance.
Reports in regard to the rising among the natives in the hinterlan 1 of Sierra Leone show that the revolt, occurred through their inability to the hut tax.
News has been reoeived that ft
battalion of the Yoruba Regiment has marched from Ifadao to the
Niger.
Parisians consider that the rentention of Baussa and Nikki by France will remove the chief obstacle to a settlement of tha West Africrn difficulty.
British newspapers think differently, and declare that this would mean (b. 9 abandonment by Britain of everything.
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Manawatu Herald, 5 March 1898, Page 2
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126West Africa. Manawatu Herald, 5 March 1898, Page 2
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