THE NEW HEBRIDES.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 761, 1 October 1886, Page 25

THE NEW HEBRIDES.

By Electric Telegraph—Copyrzc-iut.

(REUTER’S TELEGRAMS.)

London, September 21

Sir Saul Samuel, Agent-General for New South Wales, and Sir Francis Dillon Bell, Agent-General for New Zealand, are advocating the establishment in the New Hebrides of au authority which shall be equally agreeable to both the English and French Governments. The diplomatic communications, however, which are passing between the two Governments are confined at present to the proposed withdrawal of French troops from the New Hebrides.

Pabis, September 24,

The Republique Francaise to-dav, in a leading article, urges that France cannot honorably evacuate the New Hebrides after the tricolor has been hoisted there.

London, September 24.

In the House of. Commons to-day Mr Stanhope, Secretary of State for the Colonies, in reply to a question, reiterated the hope he expressed on the 6th instant, that a peaceful settlement of the New Hebrides question would shortly be arrived at. FRANCE ON ~HER DIGNITY. (SPECIAL TO UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.) London, September 23. The Republique Fxancaise states that in consequence of a German war vessel having shelled villages in the New Hebrides, it renders it impossible for the French troops to evacuate that island without dishonor. London, September 24. The Morning Post says that it is the opinion of diplomatists in Paris that the French Government have resolved to annex the New Hebrides, and that the question will be definitely

decided at the nest meeting of the Cabinet.

London, September 28. La France declares that the slave ring in New Caledonia is at the bottom of the agitation about the New Hebrides, and advises the avacuation of those islands by France.