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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 219, 26 August 1884, Page 3

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[Per Wairabapa at the Bluff.] London, August 13. Some recent despatches from Mr. Romilly (late Deputy High Commissioner for the Western Pacific) have been published. He denounces the labour traffic between Queensland and the Pacific Islands, and deprecates visits of exploring parties to New Guinea as injurious to the Natives. The Trines this morning contains an article setting forth the establishment of a protectorate over a portion of New Guinea and the adjacent Islands, and strongly approves of the scheme proposed by the British Government. The German press contains some very hostile allusions to England and its colonial policy. The papers attack the policy of the British Government at the Cape, in Africa, Australia, and the Western Pacific, and protest strongly against the proposed establishment of a British protectorate over New Guinea. August 16. In political circles it is considered probable that Colonel Scratchley will be appointed British commander under the proposed protectorate for New Guinea. The news of the defeat of Hanlan (the Canadian sculler) by Beach, at Sydney, has excited great astonishment throughout Engnmu and America. In both countries it is generally believed that Hanlan’s unexpected defeat must have been the result of some accident.