SCANDINAVIAN QUESTION.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVI, Issue 35, 10 February 1905, Page 5

SCANDINAVIAN QUESTION.

TAKES SERIOUS COMPLEXION. A HUTT AT HOSTILITIES. STOCKHOLM. February »." King Oscar, of Sweden and Norway, who is still ill. has temporarily transienei, his functions as monarch to the Crown Prince Gustave. The negotiations on the part of Norway to secure the appointment of separate Consuls have failed. Professor Dr. ;ur F. Hagerup, president of the Council of Ministers of Norway, referring to this question in a temperate, but outspoken, speech, delivered in the Storthing, urged the Norwegians to aiiow a united front in demanding what they were entitled to naturally and internationally eoneurrently with their cooperation 'with Sweden in respect to their common interests. The present condition of fhe union, he added, wa.s indefensible, and it was calculated to endanger the pewe of the two nations. [King Oscar in IS9*2 refused to grant & demand by the Norwegian Storthing for separate Consulates, for the obvious reason that such a charge would strike at the heart of the Scandinavian union. In 1303 a joint Commission held that the difficulty could be raet by having separate Consulates, but joint diplomatic services and foreign Ministries. The negotiations continued during 1904.]