NEW GUINEA.
THE AGES STRICTURES. THE SYNDICATE CONDEMNED. A PREPOSTEROUS GRAB. PEU PKESS ASSOCIATION.-COPYKKIHT.) Received May 15, 11 a.m. Brisbahe, "Wednesday. The Hon. Mr Byrnes strongly opposes the concessions granted to the Now Guinea syndicate. Under the New Guinea Act the Imperial authorities should have consulted the Queensland Executive in the matter, but did not. Rooolvod May 18, 7 p.m. Melbourne, Wednesday. The Age, in referring to what it characterises as the monopoly proposed to be created in New Guinea tor a British land-booming syndicate, says it is outrageous. The fate of Australia may be involved in what on the face of it appears to be merely a smart business deal. The paper strongly animadverts on Sir William M'Gregor's action in refusing previous applications by Mr Theodore Bevan, the New. Guinea explorer, on behalf of an Australian development syndicate, and then deferring to a policy in favor of a mysterious British syndicate. It severely condemns Mr Duncan Gillies,the Victorian ex-Premier, f or joinng the directorate of the company, which proposes to oiploit Australian territory, and accuses him of wanting to imitate Cecil Rhodes in the Jamicson raid. It urges Premier Turner to lose no time in taking steps to have this preposterous grab defeated, or withdraw Victoria's New Guinea subsidy.
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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 10919, 19 May 1898, Page 3
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210NEW GUINEA. Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 10919, 19 May 1898, Page 3
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