BRITAIN AND FRANCE IN AFRICA.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXVI, Issue 25, 27 October 1898, Page 19

BRITAIN AND FRANCE IN AFRICA.

The British claim to the territory surrounding Fashoda was defined in 1890, when Great Britain notified the Nile Valley to be within the British sphere of influence. Germany was persuadod to recognise this by receiving Heligoland, she agreeing to abandon some slight claims in South Uganda and Zanzibar. France made no protest at this juncture, but remained passive. Captains Leotard and Marchand worked together, with varying success, last year with a view to an advance into the Nile Valley. Steel afeetional gunboats were sent on under Lieutenant Lige, and 2,500 rifles were distributed among friendly natives. Towards the close of the year Captain Marchand struck the Nile at Bor below the area leased to the Belgians in 1894 for the life of King Leopold, by agreement with Lord Salisbury. The French compelled the Belgians to renounce the larger portion of the lease. Captain Marchand succeeded in launching the sectional gunboats and made his war to Fashoda. '

Egypt, under British tutelage (says the Otago Daily Times) claims that her sphere of influence extends up to the divide between the Nile and the Congo basins, but the boundary line of the Egyptian possessions, as laid down by Sir Samuel Baker, extended up to Lake Albert Edward on the equator, and included a considerable area on the Congo basin. From Lake Albert to Lado is 190 miles. Thence to Fashoda is 350, and from the latter place to Khartoum is 390 miles. By river, of course, the distance is much greater. From Khartoum steamers go up to Regaf, 300 miles by water, then navigation is stopped by the rapids. From Lado to Fashoda is a marshy and unhealthy district, but thence down to Khartoum it is much healthier. Since the end of 1897 the British protectorate of Uganda has been extended to Lake Albert.

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Messrs. Dwan Bros., hotel brokers, Willis street, Wellington report having sold Mr. James Me Duff's interest in the Railway hotel, Waitotara, to Mrs. J. Harle, formerly of that district ; Mr. W. Tucker's interest in the Queen's hotel, Lambton Quay, Wellington, to Mr. A. Greenwood, formerly of the Prince of Wales hotel Wellington ; Captaia Morgan's interest in the Wereroa hotel, Levin' to Mr. Charles Williams, late of Reefton ; also Mr. T. Resei'h'a interest in the Princess hotel, Molesworth street, Wellington to"Mr Thomas Taylor, late of Ashurst.— „,%

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