The Portuguese Difficulty.
Lisbon, January 17. Excited mobs still continue gathering in different parts of the city, as a protest against the submission of the Portuguese Government to England. Twenty thousand people paraded the streets last night us a demonstration against surrender to England on the Zambesi question. January 18. The Portuguese are boycotting the English residents, and are cancelling contracts which have been made with them. Three days since Mr Petrie, the British Consul here, threatened that the British fleet would anchor tu the Tagus if the violence of the populace low ard : :i,c Eiiglrdi wa- tv-'. repressed. Ti.e Par'.og’ie-* Praesti a.-*
upon urged prudence, an 1 the excitement here is now settling down. The officials at (Juiliuano, a seaport of Mozambique, and the centre of the territory in dispute between the Eng lielt and the Portuguese, are much dissatisfied with tlte manifesto issuer! by Senor Piniunlal, the Portuguese Premier.
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Pahiatua Star and Eketahuna Advertiser, Volume 4, Issue 365, 21 January 1890, Page 2
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