DECLINE OF THE SLAVE TRADE.
A timely Blue Book, just issued, fur nishe? the highly satisfactory informa tion that since the year 1873 when Mr Gladstone's former Government entered into a treaty with tho Sultan of Zanzibar, the export of slaves' from Africa has undergone a great diminution, Beforo that year it was estimated that about 25,000 were annually conveyed away _ to Egypt, Arabia, Persia and Somililand; but tho trade is now so strictly contraband that only a limited number aro smuggled off, and the watching in order to prevent these reduced exports is said to he now more efficetively done on land than by the cruisers in the Red Soa. The punishment of threo years imprisonment with hard labor, which was inflicted at Cairo last year on a slavedealer named Ali Saidai, was calculated to have a salutary effect on all Egyptians who are connected with the infamous traffic.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1708, 11 June 1884, Page 2
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150DECLINE OF THE SLAVE TRADE. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1708, 11 June 1884, Page 2
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