BRITISH AND FOREIGN
[BtEleoteio Telegraph—Copyright.] [Reuter’s Agency.] (Received Jan. 4,1884,1.10 a.m.) New GuineaLondon, Jan. 3. Baron Macleay, the New Guinea explorer, has addressed a letter to Lord Derby, Secretary of State for the Colonies, urging the British Govern- v meat, if it should annex New Guinea, to respect the rights of the natives, and expressing fears that attempts will be made to kidnap them for the labor trade. Railway ['Accident Ottawa (Canada), Jan. 2. A serious disaster has occurred on the railway near Toronto. A workmen’s train collided shortly after leaving the city with a goods train, and twenty passengers were killed, thirty others being seriously injured. The Exhibition. Calcutta, Jan. 2. Up to the present time the International Exhibition has been, visited by 238,600 persons. The juries commence the allocation of awards on the 15th January. [Special to the Press Association.] New LoansLondon, Jan. 2, Tenders are invited for then Victorian loan, to close the third week in January. The New Zealand 4 per cent one million loan will be announced on Friday,
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South Canterbury Times, Issue 3355, 4 January 1884, Page 2
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174BRITISH AND FOREIGN South Canterbury Times, Issue 3355, 4 January 1884, Page 2
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