New Guinea Trading Stations.

Auckland Star, Volume XVII, Issue 236, 7 October 1886, Page 2

New Guinea Trading Stations.

An important proposal has, according to a cable despatch published to day, been made to the Hon. Mr Stanhope, Secretary of State for the Colonies, in connection with the colonisation and exploration of British New Guinea. The proposition is that if certain concessions are guaranteed, Captain Everill will undertake to have a Bum of £500,000 spent in exploring the country and establishing trading stations Henry Charles Eveiill was the leader of the' exploring party sent by the Gbographical Society of Australasia last year to explore Central New Guinea. He was before that date, teacher of navigation to the

Technical Board of Education for some time. His long experience, in Sumatra was of jrr'at upo to the expedition, ho boinir able to speaK to tho Malay crew of tb^eexpedition in their nativo tonguo. It was the intention of the Geographical Society to establish trading stations, as Captain Everill now proposes to do, on the roturn of tho lato expedition, but the SociotV having run short of funds it has been cbligod to relinquish that idea. .Captain Everill, whose brother is well known in London as Socretary to tho Society of Paintors in Water Colours, lias lately been taking advantago of tho public interest taken in tho colonies to push on what the Geegraphical Society was unable to do. If Mr Stanhope favours tho proposal, tind Captain Everill is guaranteed concessions of land, it would bo well worth somo of our local island firms seeing if a portion of tho trade could not bo gained for Now Zealand. Tho lato expedition found, among other WOalth, large tracts of unused cocoanut and aago forest, within easy accesa of tho 'coast.