THE ITALIAN EXPEDITION TO NEW GUINEA.

Samoa Times and South Sea Gazette, Volume 2, Issue 89, 14 June 1879, Page 3

THE ITALIAN EXPEDITION TO NEW GUINEA.

The Italian correspondent of the Sydney Morning- Herald, writing from Rome under date March 14, supplies the following particulars respecting the expedition which it was telegraphed would be sent from Italy to colonise New Guinea. We have since heard, it will bo remembered, that the expedition bad some at present unexplained connection with the rising in Albania;'-'

" I have to announce to you i,hc approaching birth of a new city, if not on Australian ground, at least within easy hail of it. It is to be called [talia. Somewhere about tlio end of iScptenil or or the bogiflriiug of Ootobor next four screw vessels -will he seen steaming ii;t" Tones Straits. They will liiake for the southern coast of New Guinea. Three thousand |ueu will disembark there. They will pitoh their touts and live partly in them and partly on boatd ship, until an exploring party has decided upon tin eligible site, and [here thoy will found their city. The leader of the expedition is Menotti Garibaldi, son of the famous general, and his object is to open a ijew field and afford an outlet for those enterprising spirits who will not or cannot settle down to tl|e uneventful routine of quiet life. Menotti Garibaldi and Achille Ki/./ari, his fellow ud shirt m.d.T his father's command —it was young Ka/.zari who was Uaribaldi's faithful soldier nnrss dining the many months ho suffered through the wound he received at Asproiuoute —have thought ouf, planned, and i believe almost completed the arraugomenta for a colonising expedition to New Guinea. Applications to join it are being sent in at the rate of about 200 a day; the money, some 30,000,000 francs, for all requirements, is ready, and the leaders expect to have all in order fur embarkation at Turanto by the end of July or the beginning of August. The Pioneer party will, as 1 have said, number about 3000, the pick of the applications made. 1 understand that among those who have joined the adventure are :il) or more who have sat, or are now sitting as deputies in the Italian Parliament. Meuotti Garibaldi himself is one of the members for Rome. The party is to be divided into two sections—the military headed by Fozzari, for the protection of the settlers against the nntives, ajnl the agricultural pnd industrial to oommenca ujl the work of establishing their colony. The latter will include handicraftsmen of all trades and callings, and of all arts and sciences, that of flic law only being excluded. No applications from advocates aro accepted. Together with the requisite implements for tilling the ground, building their habitation* and all other things that will be nec'e.ssarv, the adventurers take with them printing presses, aiul, I am told, a telegraphic cable, with which to place themselves at one. in communication with Australia, via, I sunposo, Capo York. With this expedition I understand the Government have nothing to do beyond affording it moral supi>ort. and tbo leaders are anxious it should be understood they have DO idea of attempting, in however small a way, to initial" a rivalry with Australia. As the- children of Garibaldi they have, the warmest remembrance

when be was on his way to Sicily. They are desirous to coming into contact wi tn English institutions, work, and enterprise a* illustrated in her grandest colony -«f profiting by it for their own honour and their country's good, and of doing all they can of 'merit Australia's sympathy and deserve her support. TttSJ art not ignorant of the difficulties and dangers they are about to encounter, and are prepared to face them. When this pioneer party have established then* selves, recruits will quickly follow, and the leaders look to strengthening their Colony on the one hand and affording » ri*)tirce to a large number of tlieir countrymen on the othor by making New Guinea the point of attraction for that (,0,000 b> 05,000 poor emigrants who leave the -bores of Italy every year to Bud a more miserable fate in the republics oj South America."