ENGLAND AND PORTUGAL

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XVII, Issue 5672, 20 January 1890, Page 2

ENGLAND AND PORTUGAL

THE EXCITEMENT IN LISBON. BOYCOTTING ENGLISH RESIDENTS. A SALUTARY THREAT. Ry Electric Teleitrnph. Oopyrljfhf .— Pnr Press Ab^ Bociation,— Received Jnnuary 19, 10 5' a.m. Lisbon, Jan. 17. Excited mobs are still gathering in different parts'of the city as a protest against the submission of the Portuguese Government to England. (Received January 19, 1 a.m.) Jan. 18. Tho Portuguese are boycotting English residents, nnd are cancelling contraots made with them. Three days since M. Petro, British Consul hei'e, threatened that the British fleet would anchor in the Tngus if the violence of the populace towards the English was not repressed. The Portuguese press thereupon urged prudence, and the excitement here is now settling down. The officials at Quillimae, a seaport of Mozambique, and centre of the territory in dispute between England' and Portugal, are njtucty (^satisfied with the manifesto Issued by Senhor FitnenlaJ.tljp Portuguese Premier, and judges and inagi^trafees are reaigning th,eiv pffices. "T-U'outy thousand people paraded the streeta lust night as a demonstration 'i«ahißt Hurren^pr to England on the Zambesi question. Imperial Federation. wt . ... . <». . — (Received Jan. 20, } p'm ) Svoney, Jan. 20. ■The Daily Telegraph, referring to Lord Onslow's remarks on Imperial Federation at Dunedin hurt week, predicts that" Lord Oarrington will not advooate Imperial Fede/ation when he returns to England. fjo 'Im<Vy Advocate the retention of Ittjp^HM oonneotion, but ho knows more thari Lords Ong]ow and'Kintore of Australian iiublio sentiment, and ib is be^ lieved this knowledge has taught him no , scheme of Tmperiai Fedeuitipn will be I acceptable to J[ ryr^j| .