AGE SPECIALS.

Manawatu Times, Volume X, Issue 1333, 29 October 1884, Page 4

AGE SPECIALS.

Per Press Association (;P€iß.sVTara'v7eraat the: JBl'uff.) . ; : ■ .v.i'cX '•■•:::;'' 5 ol^9^f.,oot 14. It is curi-ently reported thanOani. agreement has been entered inco betweenit!ie!3Britiish <ahd -Grerman Gp^. vernments apportioning New Guinea and other islands 'of flae ' Pacific between tL«e Powers. , The . AgentsGenerarbfih : c Australasian 1 colonies express the highest indignation at England thus truckling^'tb Germany. It: is generally auticipated;] .>thatshould the report prove io be correct the Agents General will advise i their respective Goyernicents, to re* I fuse "to pay "any subsidy 'ti^ the cost of the British protectorate. • \ Oct 16. fc . The British, prolectprafce will extend oser that % portion' : of Bdutb em "New Guinea embraced between the 14:l8t atfdil^2iid tlegrpes of Jofagi^ tude. -The ot islands forming the Louieade Archipelago,, situated, at the sou|h eastern "' extremity /of New. Guinea, are not included m the protectorate. ' -— - - - Oct 17. A party of fifty Americaus have been formed for tha purpose of un«. derti^dng ari'explorihg expedition to ! "New Guinea m fthe^pring, ; ' ', \ x ; '-— *• v ' " Oct' 19; ! The Pall Mall Gazette, m au ar> j liele discussing the vo.e for the co.lonial defence, jxpres^eg ail opinion that tiie scheme will be incomp'ete without cable communication ben. tween England and Australia v a the Cape. ■ t '» -. n f.y r.edition has been organised under ths iuspices b): the Eo^al Gebgiiij uiUtti Society, with Henry Forbes as leader, for the purp se of exploring the Oweo Stanley Ranges m tiie . soutb*»easte'rib end of New Guinea.