THE NEW HEBRIDES. [BY TELEGRAPH.-COPYRIGHT.]

Waikato Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2173, 12 June 1886, Page 2

THE NEW HEBRIDES. [BY TELEGRAPH.-COPYRIGHT.]

j&aeT.. .•. v , Parlis Jnn« 9. TKfePrpnc^ Goy«n»m-nt in reply to the innmriai of (bo Kngliih Foreign Office, htfe^^uooced officially that the object of de^mfceningtheFrench inan«of-war to the Hebrides ttfcfc (*i protect the French nubjocW,y wintf^to the recent nmsHacren by the natives. Troops will be landed at the points menaced with the attack. • Possibly a temporary Government might be established, but the movement had no political intercut. ' ""

Protest Against the Action of France. London, June 9. 1 Mf Graham Berry and Mr Garrick have protested against the recent action of Franca in sending a vessel to the New Hebrides Lord Rosebery, to whom the protest was made, will ask M* Waddington, the French Ambassador in London, to give an explanation of the matter. The Admiralty rely on the vigilance of H.M.b. Undine and Raven, which are at present in the neighbourhood of the inlands, to look after English interests there. The Agents believe' that the present action of France is simply the prelude to annexation.

Object of French Warships. 1 London, June 0. It is believed at the Foreign Office that the French vowels which recently proceeded to the New Hebrides, were despatched there aolely for the purpose of übtatmng reparation for the outrages by the natives on the French subjects. Confidence is felt that France will not set in an underhand manner. Graham Berry, Agent-General for Victoria, had an interview with Earl R/>sebery. the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairi. No details have yet transpired.