NEW GUINEA.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 72, 26 February 1885, Page 3

NEW GUINEA.

(B?M«^ipTß^Qß^?H.r-:pbpyßivJHr.) vJ i i^REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) *?'yK "J - 1 W^oovii Feb. 25. M r Bljbe Book, on- New Guinea and the^Pacific Islands,; lias been issued, which £*hoWs, tfknuary, Earl DerKy^^tel^pfieaf fe;^rcT Augustus Losiis, ihftt.-jji waCujWn^ed: to declare the British Domju^o^-pyer all the territorjriiii New : :i : Gidmea' : aria neighboring: IslaialS; included m the protectorate. In February," Earl Derby wired to Goyernor Jervois,. instructing the discontinuance I 'of the movement for the annexation of Satriba, stating that Germany disavoWect tno action of her Consul at Apia/ and disclaimed any intention of annexing Sonioav .The papers further show that this month, Earl Granville iafojrmed.-the Court Minister of Germany/feijip^don, that if the GermanSariiQ^i;%grei3i»ent m November last was.fco^yitined, it would be necessary for England to conclude a similar arrang^inetit with King Malictoa, for the benefit of British subjects m Samoa. The' also contains a letter from Kingi ; Malictoa complaining that the treaiiy with Germany was unjustly obtained -.ami asliing that the Emperor dioip reject it. „..;