Puff on Stanley’s Fate.
All safe! Stanley reached the Arawhimi Falls on the 18th June ! Ah, but the news comes from the West Coast of Africa and is probably six weeks old I You mean it may be quite true that Stanley reached the Arawhimi Falls on the 18th June, but that the news of his having been shot dead in a scrimmage with the niggers may be true also ?
Yes, the report of his death reached London from the Congo on the 21st of July, and earlier on the same day, news had been received of him from a different quarter up to the 2nd of June! ihis report up to the 18th of June may quite easily be older than the report of his death ! 1 suppose the mail delivery is not very regular in central Africa ! No, its much about the same as it is at Pahiatua, from all accounts ! Only, there more excuse in Central Africa' The district is larger, and the railway system is in its infancy ! You don’t mean to say they have railways there ? Well, they talked about introducing a public works policy some years ago, but the shocking example of New Zealand discouraged them and I fancy they’ve dropped it new!
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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume I, Issue 27, 13 August 1887, Page 3
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