The Portuguese Question

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 89, 21 January 1890, Page 3

The Portuguese Question

By Electric y Telegraph.— Copyright. (per united press association.) Lisbon, January 17. Excited mobs are still gathering iv different parts df.;th6-i i ity l as a protest against the submission of the Portu : guese Government to England. ' . .-•■:• January 18; : The officials at Quiliuiane, a seaport i of Mozambique, and* : centre of the' territory in dispute between England and Portugal, are much dissatisfied with the manifesto issued by euhor . Pri mental, the Portuguese Premier, and the Judges and Magistrates are resigning their offices. ■ -~ Tb* Portuguese are boycotting the residents and cancelling contracts made with them. Three days since, Mr Pefcre, British Consul here, threatened that the British fleet would anchor in the Tagus if t the violence of the populace toward the English was not repressed, The Portuguese press thereupon urged prudence, and the excitement is now settling down. Jannary 19. ; The merchants in the city are dismissing their Englsh employes. Ladies decline to visit the Embassy. It is reported that the British residents are appealing to lord Salisbury to be .lenient. London. January 19 Despatches containing ' the recent •communications between England and Portugal have been published. They show that Lord Salisbury's ultimatum was due to the discovery that *Pinto's successor in Africa was continuing acts of aggression, despite the assurance of the Portuguese Government to the contrary. It is believed that Portugal only yielded in order to gain time to appeal to the Powers. •'•"•'-' '" -