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Show An lutornational Quest. 00. New York, 9 The Tribune has ibe following: Gold has been found iu the island of New Gumea and Australian newspapers are calling for inimeaiaie annexation by the English govern meot. Attention, however.is invited to theHlact that for more than a century part of the western ooast baa been cliimed by HolUnd; that the tract was taken possession of iu tbe name i f the king ol the Netherlands, and thut the acquisition was saluted by a British man of-war. Queen Elizabeth claimed Cyprus as part of her domin-ioua. domin-ioua. History records that she contested con-tested the usurpation of the Turka when they took the island from the Venetians in the war of 1570, and her claim was probably bised on tbe grounds that Richard Goeur de Lion had conquered it. On Elizabeth's tomb in Westminster Abby, it has bnen discovered that the arms of Cyprus are in corporated with the queen's. It also appears that the college of heralds of that day recognized recog-nized and legalized the claim. |