STANLEY AND EMIN.

Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 480, 14 June 1890, Page 4

STANLEY AND EMIN.

The quarrel between Emin Pasha and his gallant rescuer is a pitiable spectacle. That men who have suffered and risked so much together should signalise their return to civilisation by an open quarrel is a sad exhibition of human frailty. Soon after the return of the expedition to the coast, however, it became known that the relations between Emin and his intrepid rescuer were nob of the most cordial description. Stanley was repeatedly sounded upon the subject, mere especially after Emin’s acceptance of a position under the Germans, but he was very guarded in his replies. Ho pointed out that it was but natural that Emin should sympathise with his own countrymen, but did not regard the mission of his late companion as necessarily inimical to British interests. Now, however, according to to - day’s cable despatches, Stanley openly accuses Emin of treachery. A lecture delivered in Berlin by Herr Paul Eoichard, an African traveller, a couple of months ago, throws a good deal of light upon the nature of the dispute which has culminated in this open rupture. According to thesummary of thislecturegiven by t be "Times” correspondent, it was throughout conceived in a spirit of pronounced hostility to Stanley. Herr Reichard accused Stanley of having been directly instrumental in wrecking tho last pillars which still supported the authority of <Emin Pasha in Equatoria. Having failed to achieve the main object of his mission to Wndelai, which was nothing more than a huge commercial and land-grabbing speculation, utterly unredeemed by any humane purposes and philanthropic feelings for Emin, Mr Stanley felt that it would never do for him bo return to the coast alone ; and so, what between cajolery and downright threats, he at last succeeded in lugging away with him the helpless, if reluctant martyr who had stuck to his post of duty so nobly and so long. The better to persuade his hearers that this was the correct view of the case, Herr Reichard read a letter which, he said, he had only received that day from Count de Saint Paul lllaire, who derived the information now conveyed direct from his son, the chief representative of the German East Africa Company at Zanzibar, who had been honoured about the beginning of March with the special confidence of Emin Pasha.

Reports of what Mr Stanley had been saying at Cairo about Emin reached the Pasha, then stretched on a bed of suffering, and, being unable to refrain any longer from giving frank expression to his natural feeling of resentment, he poured the following particulars into the ear of the sympathetic M de Saint Paul lllaire the younger. Soon after lie first met Mr Stanley, the latter submitted to him the two following proposals, while strongly recommending him in treacherous wise to accept the second of them : Proposition I.—Emin to become GovernorGeneral of the Equatorial Province and the Congo State at a salary to be fixed by himself, and with an administrative fund at his disposal of £12,000 to be raised from the natural stores and ivory wealth of the province.

Proposition 2.—Emin to collect all his military and other forces and make an exodus with them to Kavirondo, on Lake Nyanza, where he would solidly establish himself and found stations, while Mr Stanley would make tracks for Mombasa, whence he would soon return with two portable steamers wherewith the two would then organise an expedition to conquer Uganda and Unyoro, and create out of these two provinces and Equatoria a dominion, of which Emin, with a princely salary, was to be the ruler in the service of the British East Africa Company. A railway would bo built through the continuous line of territory from the coast to the sources of the Nile that would prove tho grave of all tho commercial hopes of the Germans.

Such, said Herr Reichard, were the overtures made to Emin by Mr Stanley, as testified by the statement of the Pasha himself to the director of the German Company at Zanzibar, and communicated by the latter to his father, the Count de Saint Paul Illaire. Consequently, argued the lecturer, Mr Stanley had been the covert foe to Gormany, and was, therefore, unworthy of their sympathy. But a new era for them had begun with the entry of the Pasha into the service of the German Company, and now the best thing that cculd happen to it and its interest would be the judicial condemnation of Tippoo Tib in the civil action brought against him by Mr Stanley at Zanzibar, for then the sympathies of all the Arabs would be entirely enlisted on the side of the Germans, who would then become the absolute masters of all East Africa. The effect of these rivalries will no doubt be to stimulate Stanley’s energies on behalf of British intei'oste, and to render the Imperial Government more alive to the aims of Germany in Africa. ‘Auckland Star.’