PACIFIC ISLANDS COMPANY.
Press Association—By Telegraph—Oopyrlfht.
London, May 24. A Company has been formed, with a capital of £200,000, for the purpose of promoting trade and the occupation of islands in the Pacific Ocean. The directorate includes Lord Stanmore (formerly Governor of Fiji and High Commissioner of the Western Pacific), Lord Arundell, Mr D'Arey and Mr Edwin Houlder.
Sydney, May 25.
Bearing on the cable reference to the Pacific Islands Company, the London correspondent of the Sydney Daily Telegraph in a letter by last mail says that Lord Rosebery may turn upr in Australia earlier than people snp- : pose. He hears on good authority that Lord Eosebery's yacht is being fitted up for a long voyage, and it is rumoured that the Pacific is its destination. It is certainly a suspicious circumstance that Lord Rosebery has developed a marked partiality for the society of Mr Louis Becke, the novelist and has even taken shares in the South Seas Trading Company, the capital of which, it is understood, was fully subscribed privately a month 'ago* ' '" v '•-'■■■' ' '
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Press, Volume LIV, Issue 9736, 26 May 1897, Page 5
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