GERMAN COLONY IN NEW GUINEA.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1454, 14 January 1886, Page 3

GERMAN COLONY IN NEW GUINEA.

Very discouraging reports have recently appeared respecting the value of the German acquisitions in the west of Africa, and now (says the Home correspondent of the Argus) the New Guinea Company have felt compelled, >n answer to innumerable questions from all parts ef the empire as to the conditions on which settlements may be made in Kaiser Wilhelm’s Land, to give public notice that circumstances are not yet favorable enough for German emigration to that part of the world. The Chairman of the company (Herr von Haueemonn) explains that stations have not yet been erected on (he coast, that the interior has not been sufficiently explored, and that regular ship cemmumention has net been established between Kaiser Wilhelm’s Land and Australia. But the company has sent out several expeditions, and is fitting out more, for the purpose of remedying the former defects, and that being don# (within the space of a year, it is hoped), the necessary information will then be given to intending emigrants. Acquisitions of land made without the consent of the company would not bo recognised. Although, as compared with last year, German emigration is declining, still luring the first nine months of 1885 some 88,000 have left the Fatherland, The German Colonial Union have resolved to send a commission to search out and secure proper localities for

Gmiman settlements in the soutliern proviu vb of Brazil, especially in Rio Grand* do Tul. The scheme has not been received by the public with much warmth.