AMERICAN.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1204, 29 March 1895, Page 30

AMERICAN.

. Ottawa, March 19. The Dominion Government has decided to restore the privileges possessed by the Eoman Catholic schools in Manitoba prior to. 1890." In the event of the Provincial Government refusing to endorse this decision,th6n the Dominion Government will intervene in the matter. Ottawa, March 24. Thfi Toronto Globe says that owing to the decision of the Federal Government to restore the privileges of the Roman Catholic schools in Manitoba, the Provincial Government is afraid, and Parliament still more so, of the effect on the people, and has abandoned the contemplated appeal to the country. The situation, therefore, is perilous. Ottawa, March 24. Great Britain and the United States are arranging a new treaty respecting the . Behring Sea. Sir Chas. Tupper, Minister for Marine

and Fisheries in the Canadian Government, and Mr Foster, the Canadian Minister of Finance, visit Washington to co-operate with Sir Julian Pauncefote, the British Minister there, in the negotiations on the

subject. New York, March 22. A trial shipment of Columbian salmon and halibut sent frozen, via Australia, has reached London in excellent condition. The promoters of the shipment anticipate being able to open up a profitable trade. By an explosion in a colliery in Redeanyon, Wyoming, seventy miners were killed. New York, March 25. J. L. Sullivan, the well-known pugilist, has died suddenly at Boston, of heart disease. * Washington, March 20. The recall of Mr Lorrin A. Thurston, Minister in the United States for Hawaii, is demanded. March 21. The United States Government has requested Hawaii to recall Mr Thurston from New York on the ground that he is in collusion with the newspapers. Washington, March 25. Senator Chandler, ex-Secretary of the American Navy, claims that if Great Britain seized Nicaragua with a view to ultimately acquiring equal authority over the Canal, war would become possible. America must ally herself with Russia, both in her own interests and in order to restrict the aggressive colonisation of England.