NOUMEAN NEWS.
-AN AUSTRALIAN ENCHASE STORY. ' TROUBLE AT TAHITI. SIGNIFICANT MOVEMENTS OF WARSHIPS. lUhithd Press Association.— Coptt MOOT.] /Received 8 39 am) SYDNEY, Tuesday. Noumean files publish a circumstan- ' stantial statement that an agent of the Australian Commonwealth at' Pans - some time ago w«tayijw to purchase New Caledonia for £60,000,000. A Noumean correspondent states that the gunboat Zcde and the cruiser Catinat We left Noumea for Tahiti. The Object of the .visit may be in connection with the forthcoming national *fete hat it i« coincident .with some State affairs that, suggest a "more grave reason. \ n ts «*. .„ . Commenting on the reported attempt to purchase „ New Caledonia, the Noumean newspaper -"Bulletin dv Commerce," declares that in view of the abandonment of and contempt for their riehfc New Caledonians are, not deceived -and only know that the declaration - that New Caledonia and Tahiti are for **! S^f'corcespondenfc says that Noumea, the population of Tahiti are in a state bordering on anarchy, the result of the Tecent heavy, increase oi taxation -which, -owing to the acute .financial depression, people are unable to meet.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 18 June 1907, Page 3
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179NOUMEAN NEWS. Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 18 June 1907, Page 3
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