NEW GUINEA.
(ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. — COPYRIGHT.) !'• '! '! Berlin* Feb. 6. jr.uThd Whit© {Book on the i . New. Guinea issued ,sho#s that m. August last, Bismarck .acHfep.ted a proposal from l»ord Gfanviflei that a cortiiiissibn he appointed to" define the respectiVes bi^beiOß,»f.Gei7inany.ftnd'l^lan4i m the , Bouth; /aeas./jlnt September, notified to.Ge.nnany.the resolution of the (ipionies to piroclaini protection over all ! Wew^GmnW coastis, except northj and those claimed hy Holland. Iri October, Lord^Earl- Granville, owing to German agreed to British protection l>eing restricted to the south coast and . adjacent islands. Bismarck regarded 1 tto despatch aS a 'promise to restrict protection to thesouth, and, as an implied .-. aßsuraacdiuthat German annexation m the north would jm>V conflict with English interests. In January last, Sir E4wa^d I^iJilet, British Ambassador, ex- ' ip&ste&i his surprise that the Gerihan flaghad been hoisted inthe north beforethe commission >ad.met,and announced that England had m consequence decided to '''tj^jolwm protection ovrt'itheicoast from 'East^Cape'to^Heron Gulf. Bismarck's latest despatch considers that a violation of Earl Granville's October promise^and 1 formally protests against the British action. ■• .
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Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 57, 9 February 1885, Page 3
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169NEW GUINEA. Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 57, 9 February 1885, Page 3
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