SOUTH AFRICAN NEWS
(By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) THE ANGLO-PORTUGUESE FRICTION. (per press association). Capetown, April 9. Information has been received here that Lieut. Frere, with a Portuguese escort, has been sent by the Portuguese authorities to intimate to the Rhodes Company that they must evacuate their mines in Massikesse. Lieut. Frere was arrested and sent to Umtasa’s kraal, where Mr Colquhoun, Administrator of the British South Africa Company, is settled. Two hundred and fifty British golddiggers proceed to the Astoria goldfields via Port Beira. The Portuguese Government complain that this will compel them to oppose their landing by force. London, April 10. The Marquis of Salisbury has drafted a new convention with regard to South African territory, in which he assigns Great Britain the whole plateau of Manicaland. ~ Lord R. Churchill’s expedition on a large scale to Mashonal&nd is attracting much attention. Lisbon, April 10. Portugal has stopped the navigation of the Pungere until the British evacuate their post at Massikessa. , Zanzibar, April 12. By an explosion of gunpowder in a building adjoining the palace of the Sultan of Zanzibar, 13 persons were killed and 18 wounded.
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New Zealand Mail, Issue 998, 17 April 1891, Page 31
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