CABLE NEWS.
The Fisheries Exhibition- :
Expedition to New Guinea.
French Atrocities.
The New Guinea Scheme. ;
(BY ELECTRIC TEIEOKAPH. —-COPYRIGHT.) (SPECIAL TO UNITBW PBBSS ASSOCIATION.) London, October 17. At the Fisheries Exhibition, Messrs Ramsay and Macleay were awarded gold - medals, and Messrs Tenison and Woods diplomasoMionor, r -«- * — >*»^» The Due de Fernan- NTunez, Spanish Ambassador at Paris, who resigned, haswitbdtawn his resignation. / Qenerol Mclver, of the Servian (French ?) Army, who for some time past has.lbeen .actively engaged^ m organising a quasi-military expedition to New Guinea, states that the "sub. seditions towards defraying the' cost of ft amount t0, £20,000, and that applications tor 500 p v arsons^ho i ; a'e willing to join have been reoeived. ; '■-.; As-- .%.:'■ a <PotqbarlB., .. :l The Figaro states the "French sailors have butcherbd hundreds of the residents of Hue, refusing 1 quarter to all, and tbe wounded were bayoneted. Ooalts Trotter* /in abetter to the Timep, warns the pnblic of the danger fn acepting the scheme ot General VTclvor for to 'settlement Of New* Guinea.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 272, 20 October 1883, Page 2
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167CABLE NEWS. Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 272, 20 October 1883, Page 2
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