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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 226, 3 September 1884, Page 2

(AGE SPECIALS.) London, August 18. It is reported that Turner, of New York, is about to challenge Hanlon for a contest.

The report that the commander of a gunboat forcibly removed the English flag at Augra Peguina, on the West Coast of Africa, and hoisted the German flag, needs confirmation. It is rumored that Germany intends to propose a Congress of Delegates from the Great Powers to confer on the question of the Congo boundary, as affecting to Egypt. Tawhiao will not return to New Zealand with his chiefs, who leave by the Orient steamer Potosi, but will remain some time longer in England. August 25. The Austrian Government have decided to despatch a number of war ships to the Pacific Africa, and other places, with a view to extending their Colonial possessions, and carrying out their proposed system of Colonisation. August 27. The Pall Mall Gazette, in an article last night, referring to the recent contest between Beach and Hanlan, for the sculling championship of the world, expressed doubts as to whether Hanlan was genuinely defeated. It is reported from Canada that 600 boatmen are enlisting for an expedition which is being formed to navigate the Nile, and to relieve General Gordon at Khartoum.