ARBITRATION

North Otago Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 6536, 29 December 1887, Page 4

ARBI TRATION

The c«iise of arr.i > ra'inn has mv-1* n rJU.

tlnc r •vdvince. On Monday, October 31, Prepiden' CieTe'and \n VV9shio2;(:' > n received a deputation from the Bri'ish Peace sad A rhitratio* A^sociition, and in London an inflaen'ial meetinj on the enbj«ct, preeided ov^r by the Marqnh of Lome, was held in 'he Trophy Hill r-f the American Exhihi'ion. Sir Lyon Playfair, on behiK of 'hp RntrJis'h ar\r r«inn : ij b, prcsen f e<i a mimr.viul o Pr^-^itlent C'evaian'lj signed by 233 memhfr^ of Pdrliame?tf. ur-jin^ that a tren'37 might b % dsviaed bafween England and America whicti would be a gUrioua exairp'e 'o other oeoples, and miijht lead to the two great S»xon na'iona

being th<^ peacemakers of ihe world.

Pr<iident Cleveland rep'ied with cmtioug reserve, bat admt^e-i that American opinion was avpree to killiuij; men (or the accomplishment of national ambition, and suggested, not altogatber relavaatly, that America could point 10 more victories of

peace than nny other nation

At the

meeting in Liudon, n letter from Lord was rea'J, pointing ont that he bad Ledj y<j?pousible for teo references of dispuf^a to arbifrntion, aod the*Ma v qui' of Lome s«id that the object aimed at was the nnntenance of D-»rrnanent peace, not only be ween E'uHshme* and A^mericios, bui; te wefiti "th«; na'iooa gf tfrn wkle, wide world "