H. M. STANLEY.

Auckland Star, Volume XXIII, Issue 2, 4 January 1892, Page 3

H. M. STANLEY.

Mr H. M. Stanley delivered bis third lecture, entitled, " Quest and Rescue of Emm Pasha," at the Opera House on Saturday evening last, before a largo audience. Mr Stanley dwelt at some length on tho vacillation of Emm after his appeal to tho English people, " Help us quickly ere wo perish." He had that day received a letter from ono of his old officers, Lieutenant Stairs, showing that Emm was marching north, trespassing on British territory, and planting German flags in all tho villages, evidently with the intention to annex all the territory to the 30th meridian. Mr Stanley regretted that not one of the bravo officers who assisted him in his expedition had met with any recognition from the British Government. As for himself, he was denounced as an ivory grubber, a pirate, and a buccaneer, and for the relief of Emm ho had recoived such epithets as would shame the Evil One himself. Ho looked with laudable prido, however, to the result of his explorations in Equatorial Africa. The terrible Dark Continent had now lost its terrors. Tho interior was opened up to bhe commerce of the world, and whereas a few years ago there was only one white man in Central Africa, there were now fifty-two mission stations there. Though Africa would never become the homo of the white man, as these islands had become, it would bo the home of great African nations. Mr Stanley was loudly applauded at the conclusion of his lecture.