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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 5710, 18 December 1889, Page 2

Max O'Rkll was not far wrong when he said that Englishmen believed that they had a pre-emptive right to the waste places of the earth. It is certain that most of tho waste places have been discovered and explored by Englishmcu, and iv that way they htivo a right to keep what they have found. It dood not always happen that they immediately tuku possession, us in the casu of iho territory watered by tho Zambesi and its tributuriea, and which has lately been given tho name of Zatnbeaia. Tho Portuguese havo recontly sot up souio claim to much of this country on the score of discovery, but their only interest in it is to enslave aud ill-treat tho natives. Tho wanton outrage perpetrated tho other day by the Portuguese on the Makololos is an instance of how they act towards tho native races, and this was followed up by insulting the English flag by urging , British subjects to place themselves under tho protection of Portugal! Although we have heard uothinjj more of the subject, the matter will assuredly uover be allowed to rest where it

is. To allow the country that was made known to us by Livingstone, Grant, Speke, and Stanley, to fall into the hands of a coutemptible Power like Portugal, is rather more than what England is accustomed to, and,we are surprised that we have hud np further news. . ■ . . >.-', ;.l