HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 227, 26 March 1895, Page 2

HOME & FOREIGN CABLES.

• THE FIGHTING at BEASS BIVEB. PAYMENT OF MEMBERS. THE EDUCATION QUESTION IN CANADA. (Per Press Association). London, March 25. Sir William Harcourt has stated that when the proper time arrives, and the finances permit it, the Government will try to give effect to the resolution just carried by the House of Commons in favour of payment of members. Lord Kiraberley, Secretary of State fop I Foreign Affair.*, in reply to a request of the Aborigines Protection Societv for a strict enquiry into the operations on Brass l<iyer, a tributary of the Niger, said personally he did not regret the punishment inflicted on the natives, who had beheaded on English clerk and pillaged the town of Akassa. He refused to enquire into the general management of the Rojal Niger Company. Ottawa, March 24. The Toronto Globe says that owing to the decision of the Federal Government to restore the privileges of the Roman Catholic schools in Manitoba, the Provincial Government is afraid, and Parliament still more so, of the effect on the people, and has abandoned the contemplated appeal to the country. The situation, therefore is perilous. Great Britain and the United States are arranging a new treaty respecting the Behrinpf Sea, Sir Chas. Tupper, Minister ( for Marine and Fisheries in the Canadian Government and Mr Foster the Canadian Minister of Finance, visit Washington to co-operate with Sir Julian Paunceforte, the British Minister there, in the negotiations on the subject.