THE ZAMBESI AFFAIR

Waikato Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 2745, 15 February 1890, Page 2

THE ZAMBESI AFFAIR

[fff ,ELK|BTJUCf iXBLEQ^APH.—jOOPYRIOHT.] Beklin, February H. The Emperor William exhorts with Portugal. " Jr 11.

Lord Salisbury insists that, the Nyassa and Mashona lands shall be regarded as British territory, and tuo remainder of the disputed country delimited in the regular .way. . February 12. In the House of Lords ? the Marquis, of Salisbury, .in speech re'ferriDg td l the" I Za\nbe ,c ß'i difficulty, stated that 'the Tok-tuguese Government had been repeatedly warned 'tha ; t rj MglaM :i woW Wt Ag%e her assent to of Portugal, ,same, ; 4i,m > i^ ! intimate&jtbatf he,v at any opportunity to inquire into the matter, ; and ythe, matter mightjJiave been arranged had riot MajppPinto ■intervened.rsA's English Governments had! been , pompelled to speed their decision in order to avert 'bloodshed; atid' probably danger to l the,Eor,tuguese monarchy. Sir 'Jambs tFerguslson, in reply to a; question, in the ; Ho]us,epf| Commons, said s arbitration would not apply to such a- case as the dispute ) England and Por^tigal. ' ./'..i;J-:!!'|';.: February 12. A patriotic meeting in the Coliseum has' been dispersed fby the police,- and -thirty of. the principals have been' arrested. The. feeling against English residents and England itself continues very bitter., , ■ f * ~ -; Portugal intends |o reorganise /her army and purchase, eight (additional warships. jv; v , •<; ... February 12. The' Portuguese Press violently attacksiMthe British ;.Consul at Oporto for declining to recognise the challenge..:issued by Signor Andrade. The.- feeling against England still exists, and -yesterday being *a month,, since ~• the ultimatum was received, manv of the shops have.becn drape'ct in'mourning, evidently as a testimony of the sorrow the proprietors felt in the submission 1 of the Government'to the demand r 6f Lord Salisbury on the Zambesi question.