BRITAIN AND BRAZIL.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1686, 22 June 1904, Page 20

BRITAIN AND BRAZIL.

GUIANA FRONTIER QUESTION.

LONDON, June 16

The award has been delivered of King Victor Ehnmanuel of Italy, whose Government was appointed as arbitrator in the territorial dispute between Britain and Brazil regarding the frontier of Brazil and British Guiana.

The award generally sustains the Britisn contentions.

The territorial adjustment of British Guiana has been the subject of dispute for some years. This British colony is bounded on the east by Dutch Guiana, on the south by Brazil, on the west by Venezuela and on the north and northeast by the Atlantic. Its area is estimated at • a hundred and twenty thousand square miles, and its population numbers over three hundred thousand. The dispute between Venezuela and Britain regarding the western boundary was settled by arbitration in 1899, and the award decided, among other things, that the mouth of the-Orinoco should be open to the British, also both banks of part of the Cuyuni (instead of only one bank as previously). The result of the award was, practically, that Britain gave up a few hundred, of sixty thousand square miles which she claimed, while the important goldfields remained hers uncurtailed. The dispute just decided as to the Brazilian frontier was referred toi the Italian Government in October, 1901.