THE EXPLORER STANLEY.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 284, 25 July 1888, Page 6

THE EXPLORER STANLEY.

Conflicting repoitsarc in circulation le gal-ding Stanley's tutc. The "Journal de Debats" is in receipt of a special from Zanzibar, June 19th, announcing his death, and that the porters accompanying the expedition have been in mourning three weeks. They lay Stanley's defeat and death to Tippoo Tib. The " Caulois vof the 19th also claimed news from Brussels that the king had received positive intelligence of the explorers death ; but this is denied. Congo oihcials in Brussels think the reports received from the messengers ironi Aruwhimi are due to some confusion regarding Waid's ]ourney. Still, they are anxious as to Stanley's fate, chiefly because Emm Bey had heard nothing of Ward, and received almost positive confirmation ot the hostility of the tiibes between Aruwhimi and the Wadelai. Despatches from St. Paul de Loando, dated June 20th, received in London, state that bad news had been received horn Leopard Hill m legard to Stanley. The exploier, after traversing the regions of the Upper Aruwhimi, struck a densely wooded country, through which his passage was disputed by hostile tribes, who were alarmed by the false reports as to the intention of the expedition purposely spread by the Aiabs. Stanley forced the righting, though badly wounded himself. Deserteis repjrted that Stanley was surrounded in his camp, and a relief expedition is being organised In an inters iew had in London on June, 23rd, Sir Francis de Winton, speaking of the latest news fiom Stanley, admitted there was cause for anxiety but not for panic. The recent Captain of the mission steamer Charles Jensen ac Makau-Eilas, a town on the south-east side of Lake Nyas&a, showed how strong the Arabs had grown with their allied friends, and how correct I was the judgment of those who declared that this was no isolated outbieak, but pai t of a general movement, which not only boded ill for Stanley, but also menaced the whole of the tiadingand missionary stations on the Lake, and threatened to overwhelm the peaceful work of the last twenty years. Karinga, at the opposite extremity of the Lake, is now in the hands of the Arabs. The slavers, Arabs, and the nathes allied to them, -\\ho are irritated by the check imposed by the piesence of Eiuopeans, have enteied upon a war of extermination, and are determined on driving the Europeans from the country. The missionaries ha\e abstained from all but the most absolutely peaceful method* of action, and ha\e risked their lives -vsillingly among the population, which ha& learned to know them only as benefactois and peacemakeis. But the growth of slave-trading and the steady achanco of raidero tin eaten to change all this, and indicate seiious and lamentable e\entt-. It is feared that the arms, ammunition, and men recently .sent fiom Zanzibar and Natal on mgentoiders to the African lake countiy ha\e not arrived in time to pie\ent disa^tei to the Company, and that their steamer, the Itala, had also been captiued. This needed leinforccment could have saved many days of tia\el had it not been for tne obstae'e pi, iced by the I'otbugue&e upon the na\igation of the Zambesi River. Do V.'inton, m .such a eiitical juncture, puggests that the Butish (ioveinment should immediately arm and equip ail expedition, not only to go at once to the lelief of Stanley, but when that object is accomplished to wipe out ot existence all sla\en> in the country. A despatch horn London, June 28th, says the Foieign Olhce i& in loceipt of news conhtming the itpoit of the ai rival of the " White Faeha" m the Bahehee district. This is taken to refei to Stanley.

THE LATEST. A despatch from London, June 30th, frays :—": — " Oideife have been bent to Suakim to try, through native lunncr- about Kiuutouin, to get news of Stanley and ot the Euiopean prisoners who aie held at Khaitoum."