A COSTLY ACQUISITION.
❖ In the cause of civilisation, the Bey of Tunis (according to the “ World ”) will be immediately required to hand over to French speculators and contractors —1. The mines of Tabarca (described as the richest in the world by M. Fuchs, of the Paris School of Mines). 2. The port of Bizerto, to be turned into an African Toulon, at the cost of twenty million of francs, according to the estimates of Admiral Cloue. 3. The completion of the port of Tunis, the contract being twenty millions of francs. 4. A railway from Tunis to Bizfcrta. 5. A railway from Tunis to Gabes. 6. The cutting of the Isthmus of Gabes—a work estimated b} r M. De Lesseps at twenty millions. These are a few of the plums incidental to the “ civilising manners of the French,”
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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2621, 15 August 1881, Page 3
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138A COSTLY ACQUISITION. South Canterbury Times, Issue 2621, 15 August 1881, Page 3
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