New Guinea Annexation Matters Arranged.
Earl Granvillo has published a letter announcing that the friction with Germany has ended. An amicable under* standing has been arrived at with Count Herbert Bismarck regarding the English Blue Book and Pacific affairs. Count Bismarck has returned (o Berlin. '
In the House of .Commons to-day, Lord Edmund Fitzmaurice, Political Secretary, to Foreign Gffice, in reply to questions, stated that the territory north of Borneo is hot under British rule.
The ' Pall Mall Gazette' states that it has been agreed that the eighth, parallel shall be the boundary between the English and German annexations in New Guinea. x , • . .
In the House of Commons to-day, lord flartington confirmed the announcement that the'ptopos^d increase in the British Army would consist of JLtr.OOO men. _ ■ , , ■ JMarch 9. The Australian mails from Melbourne, January 29, were delivered here today. '. 'N '
[SriJCIALS TO THE PjIESS ASSOCIATION
London, March 9
Fully one million of money is available to meet the first dividend made by the old Oriental Bank Company. There is considerable excitement in Shanghai in consequence of the French fleet overhauling English and American steamers.
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Thames Star, Volume XVI, Issue 5042, 11 March 1885, Page 2
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184New Guinea Annexation Matters Arranged. Thames Star, Volume XVI, Issue 5042, 11 March 1885, Page 2
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