SIGNOR CRISPI ON PAPACY AND EUROPEAN SITUATION;

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 51, 17 October 1889, Page 2

SIGNOR CRISPI ON PAPACY AND EUROPEAN SITUATION;

SEAELE AND MATTERSON BAN-

QUETTE3X " Keceired October 17, noon. Rome, October 16. Signor Crispi, speaking at a banquet in Palermo, the capital of Sicily, said that, despite the complaints and threats 'which: from time to time emanated from the? Vatican, temporal power would never be restored to the Papacy in Italy. He denied the Italian Government had any aggressive designs on her neighbors ; they merely sought to establish the peace of Europe on a firm basis. He admitted there had recently been danger of war breaking out, but now he hoped peacewas secured- Italy was desirous of promoting the formation of an independent Balkan State. LosDOlf. < >ctober 16 The Privy Council has approved the granting of the charter of the British. South African Company, whose. object is to open the Zambezi. Searle and Matterson have been banquetted at the Albert Club in London. Mrs Clasper, the head of the well known boat building firm, presented them with medals in commemoration of their victories in England. The Royal Humane Society has awarded both oarsmen certificates for attempting to save the life of two boys who fell into the Thames in August last and were drowned. - The Copfcie has been surveyed at Eio de Janiero and ordered into dock for repairs. A portion of her cargo is damaged. Bkbiin. October. 1(J Before leaving this city the Czarplaoed a wreath on the late Emperor Frederick's tomb. St. Petebsbubs, October 16. The Novoe Vremya hopes Germany will respect Russia's legitimate interests', I which it considers is essential to the conI tinuance of friendship between the two. ; countries. I Syi>nkt, This Day. ! The Local Option League, in response to a communication from the New Zealand Alliance, "has expressed its willingness to contribute pro rata to the "Wilberforce mission. The sailors on the Balmoral . Castle, who were arrested for preventing the nonunion men working on the steamer > have been fined and sentenced to short terms of imprisonment.