Manawatu Standard. (PUBLISHED DAILY.) SATURDAY, JUNE 23, 1883. THE NEW HEBRIDES.
The colonies '^i;e not bestirring th-enir-selres tpq.sqon m the matter pf..annexing the New |HBbri,deßi r A sigpificant note has jnst been sounded m the XlXme. Siediij which 1 publishes 1 a long article exfoltirie; 4 the" climate, ; soil ,' and other advantages of the New Hebrides, and dwelling on the ben' fits that would accrue to France from their acquisition It winds up as follows :—* T And now, if it be ;aßked-why_\*e.ar6in(it raaajters of this archipelago that belongs to no one —the 'islands, of . coarse, are nobody's — 'andwhy Tlo J we v hesitate m takings possession of it— l reply that the Englislii W6Uld[ not show the same scruples' it they were m onr place. A despatch has. just informed U3 that they have annexed-^Ne^.^Suinea^iwlf Vwei<Ml not make haste, they will do the same thinj; | with^ regardgto the Ne/wl Hebrides, and 1 wfieii that takes place * -we may- as well recogniee as -certain 7 the fact of ]S(ew i Caledonia becoming au English colony. , What a people are the English 1 " I
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Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 170, 23 June 1883, Page 2
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182The Manawatu Standard. (PUBLISHED DAILY.) SATURDAY, JUNE 23, 1883. THE NEW HEBRIDES. Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 170, 23 June 1883, Page 2
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