SYMPATHY WITH RUSSIA.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 146, 26 May 1885, Page 2

SYMPATHY WITH RUSSIA.

I ■ . . ' "^ — -" ■ * ■»? I The last number .of tshe New -Zealand \Tabtet, the organ of our Roman Catholic [fellow ! has k'Capital^pffiele enjtitled "Sympathy with Russia." Itrejfer* /to; A "letter "received r jfrpnrf aq irate jsubafetiber ! ob rather ei->sube«nb^Jy|o [argued that because of England's injustice to Ireland, a journal strongly supjported by Irishmen Bhould m no ways isympaihise with England, but on the 'contrary give herteneinieg" its best wishes. The article which is tery. well written thus:— "For. many reasons,jtherefore, we . refuse our: sympathies to enemies. We do lit for the •sake of Ireland herself, whose^path to all ;she can pqssiblydesire lied through con-' t _a.nd peirsewance m 'a lawfid struggle. A?, colontSla of a .British Coloifty we ,do it f or the of JEngland under whose rule -iW.e Uye and !thrive irthappinl'ss and f Kmoifc And, Jagain, wq doit fpfthe sa.k^'gf our chilidren who^ai;e ti> inliabit thepe countries .hereafter, whose greatness and pros|perity wiftdepetid upptt^eir alliance ! with the great Srittsu^&glfigre, intact m 'jail its parts." Su<jh, the% 48b the princijples by which we sliatfvhmd— condemn ithem who may.% To wJubK] wecan only jadd Bravo M Vv^^y;

I I AGEi SPKGIAJ^.] } (Per s.s. Man^pbpri irtihe Bluff.) | (UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.) ; I •■••• London, May 12, ; The Time* this: morning* states that the agreement entered^ fold - between to allow both nations to conlpiete pfeparationsf ■; vr «. \ q •- v n (j^'Ja ',t ! In the House ; of Commons/last flight [Lord H^inflfton; %thaji^3y Peter, ■Lumaden had been recalWd fronVthe; AfghaM* J&htieT at ■the'"ti?cttt«iirt»l t)i^ to Russian authorities --•?; : \ ; = ••■ '•.,:■ . ; A sum p*-«tSsfift|ooo isa^tejng expended bwthe Imperi^ authorities la the ' couifpienOu of 'theVra'ilwrfjrto'Qoeßcaii ao« I constructing defence, works on the In- ! dian ffontief: " Abotii £B,lKW;eod~h»£rali i ready been expended- on^the British pr6---i parationsforwar., ■'••"A-,..- "" SPKOIAIi TO>;UNITKD-PBKBB a|s«CIATIOIC. BY ELECT B^3 ; r^_ LpNDON,Jiyiay 22. The Earl of ' "Eimberiey, Secretary of State for India, denies. the statement that Hd's*ia^h & -dferaanded»ia:huMesto Jejo^ atCabul. — ~i T /^|pf ©t'a fc&tom!& ... , : BpMBAY, May 23. Six. |)6naJd v Ste/vartl»a|^ara ved 4v^Hexat sna uias iflet wityj fO^p*m £™ f§£. cpme from the natives. Members of the Boundary Oa-a^ttxißaion-novr quartered on suryeying. the. surrounding aistrifiW ' „-t, j 7 1° i 2^2^»ii^^j£jiiti .100 If