The ' Daily News' ' Madeira correspondent telegraphs advices from Whydah to July 27. The King of Dahomey defies the blockade, and allows no communication with vessels. He has seized four Frenchmen who attempted to get off in cruisers. He threatened. to massacre every white man at the first shot fired. The Sirius, Contest, Mallard, and the Spiteful form the blockading squadron. Commodore Hewett has gone to the Niger.
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New Zealand Tablet, Volume IV, Issue 186, 20 October 1876, Page 9
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