NEW HEBRIDES QUESTION.
(SPECIAL TO UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.) London, June 10. The Free Church of Scotland has forwarded a protest to Mr Gladstone against any French lodgment being permitted at the New Hebrides,, and which they contend would have the effect of destroying the Presbyterian missions established there. Le Paris declares that if France establishes a permanent protection over the islands England can have no ground for complaint. Paeis, June 10. M. de Freycinet has assured Lord Lyons, British Ambassador in Paris, that the action of the French Government in despatching a war vessel to the New Hebrides was solely due to the necessity for protecting French subjects from massacre by the Natives. London, June 10. The Pall Mall Gazette, in an article on the New Hebrides question, considers that the views expressed by Victoria in the matter were calmer than the facts of the SMS warranted.
and state that i£ a single French soldier lands without the permission of England, the occupation of the islands will be ensured.
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New Zealand Mail, Issue 746, 18 June 1886, Page 23
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