NEW GUINEA.
- ■ . •.•..:.V*. ....-• :. ... :{ ik-JiH (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH-COPYRIGHT.) (B BITTER'S, T6L Ea-RAifS.) Melbourne, Oct. 11. Mr Service, Premier of Victoria, and Mr Griffiths, Premier of Queensland, have received telegrams intimating that the Imperial Govern-? ment will shortly instruct the "commodore of the Australian station to proclaim a British protectorate over the south-east portion of New Guinea, and the adjacent islands! Latjsr* London, QcV.iOl, The announcement that a British protectorate is to be forthwith established over a portion of New Guinea is now fully confirmed. Confmander Erskine has been ordered to proclaim over the southern coasts of the island, eastward of the 141 st degree of longitude, as well as over the islands adjacent , to; the coast of New Guinea^; Th£ British Government, however^ Ijave' decided that for the present settlement m the territory and islands shall be prohibited.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 271, 13 October 1884, Page 2
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137NEW GUINEA. Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 271, 13 October 1884, Page 2
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