the expedition would be dealt with as a filibustering one.

In _Judy_, September 21, 1887, appears:

"We all recollect the treatment received by Brigadier-General
MacI. in the action he took with respect to the annexation of New
Guinea. The General, who is a sort of Pizarro, with a dash of
D'Artagnan, was treated in a most scurvy manner by Lord Derby.
Had MacIver not been thwarted in his enterprise, the whole of
New Guinea would now have been under the British flag, and we
should not be cheek-by-jowl with the Germans, as we are in too
many places."

_Society_, September 3, 1887, says:

"The New Guinea expedition proved abortive, owing to the
blundering shortsightedness of the then Government, for which
Lord Derby was chiefly responsible, but what little foothold we
possess in New Guinea, is certainly due to General MacIver's
gallant effort."

Copy of statement made by J. Rintoul Mitchell, June 2, 1887:

"About the latter end of the year 1883, when I was editor-in-chief
of the _Englishman_ in Calcutta, I was told by Captain de Deaux,
assistant secretary in the Foreign Office of the Indian Government,
that he had received a telegram from Lord Derby to the effect that
if General MacIver ventured to land upon the coast of New Guinea
it would become the duty of Lord Ripon, Viceroy, to use the naval
forces at his command for the purpose of deporting General MacI.