New Herbrides Question.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XII, Issue 1735, 16 June 1886, Page 3

New Herbrides Question.

(Per •.«. Tarawera at the Bluff.> (XSVrtVD PBEBB ASSOCIATION.) Sydsey, * Jane T. ! The Gorernor received an important 4Mpatch from E; Layard, Acting Consul at Noumea, informing him of the departore of the man-of-war Dives for Hew Hebrides, it is said with the intenSoa of hoisting Wij French bag. The *U.n.itch reads:— She has taken a body S^Snch troop,> ,M anjT^three month.' provision for them. The Gom^larg. purchases of timber and corrugated. »rQn, "d *J» •rtillery workshops are . working night »nd day makiifc barrscks for he «,ldieis f which are to beconveyedto the Wand by th# steam transport Magellan to morrow. The secret, was well kept until" the departure of the steamer for Sydner. No vessel was allowed to leave the harber by a general order of tht Acting Governor. It was openly rainored this was done specially to prevent me gettinir to the islands firsthand hoisting the English nag. The New Caledonian Government received^, a tablet ram from France, and the Dives was pnt m fighting trim before leaving, M the German gunboat Albatro ss was io the New. Hebrides. The two entran«eg to the harbor were watched by armed boats all night with th« same intent, and I nave othe* reason^ for beli.Wng that my home was watched by •pies for at least two nights until the Kenchve«el,wa. three mile, outs.de the harbor. I nave lived here ten years, and know the Post Office too well to entrait it with anything important.