ISLAND NEWS
NEW CALEDONIA FOR SALE. A FINANCIAL PANIC. Press Association-By Telegraph-Copyright SYDNEY. .Tune 18. Noumean files publish a circumstantial statement that an agent- of the Commonwealth was in Paris some time ago trying to purchase New Caledonia for £6o.ooo:coo. Commenting on the reported attempt to purchase New Caledonia, the Nonme in newspaner "Bulletin du Commerce" dodares that in v=ew of t-lie abandonment and contempt for their rights. New Caledonians are not deceived, and onlv know that the declaration that New Caledonia and Tahiti are for exchange for money, is improved bv some members of the Frenqh Ministry "and Parliament. A Noumean correspondent- s'at?s tl>at tit- 1 gunboat 7eedee and the cruiser Cntinat j,n T » left- Noumen for Tahiti. The object of the visit may be in connection -with the forthcoming national but it is coincident with a state of affairs that suggests a more jrrave reason. A Nownean correspondent says that aci ordinc to reports which have reached Noumea, the population of Tahiti art* m a state bordering on anarchy, the result of thp recent heavy increase of taxation, which, owinc to the acute financial depression. they are unable to meet.
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Timaru Herald, Volume XC, Issue 13316, 19 June 1907, Page 5
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192ISLAND NEWS Timaru Herald, Volume XC, Issue 13316, 19 June 1907, Page 5
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