SPEECH BY SALISBURY.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXI, Issue 292, 8 December 1900, Page 4

SPEECH BY SALISBURY.

THE WAR IN AFRICA.

INDEPENDENCE.. IMPOSStBIJS. |

LONDON, Dec. 6,

The Queen's speech at the opening of Parliament was the shortest on record. It only states that Parliament has been sumnioned to make further! provision in connection with South Africa and China. Other matte-*-. will.be left till the spring session.

Lord Salisbury, in the debate on tha Address-in-Reply, strenuously reiterated that the war would be vigorously; prosecuted to thg end. The British! policy Avas embodied in Lord Roberts' proclamation. Independence was new; impossible. Regarding the affairs in China ha stated that the concert of Europe latterly had assumed greater vitality, and there was very little doubt •it would prove successful in its objects. Lord Kimberly frankly admittM that the independence of the South African Republics could not be restored.

Sir H. Campbell-Bann-rman.intho Hbuse of Commons,* declared that all, with a few insignificant exceptions, were agreed as to the necessity > for the _neorpqration-:^-^.4he conquered territories.

LONDON,. Dec.. 7.

. -The "T. fe^aph'.i_|f^..tl_?^u^la< inentary.Esti_aa"tes"-_-ks-for. .13 4 millions for South Airica, and three mil. lions for China,- s, :,