LATEST PARTICULARS.

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 160, 9 January 1896, Page 2

LATEST PARTICULARS.

CRITICAL STATE OF AFFAIRS. TROOPS ORDERED TO THE CAPE. THE QUEEN REBUKES THE GERMAN EMPEROR. GERMAN PRESS BACK DOWN. London, January 8. The British public are enthused over the Marquis of Salisbury's energy in connection with the Transvaal. At many meetings in England to discuss the question the name Sfe the Emperor of Germany was hissed. The war feeling against Germany is in marked contrast to the feeling in the recent difficulty with President Cleveland respecting the Venezuelan frontier. The Archbishop of Canterbury has issued a prater for peace. Two regiments returning from India have been ordered to disembark at the Cape, and other troops are to be despatched there from England. Germany's intended landing of marines at Delagoa is part of a long scheme to interfere with the British in the Cape. The Queen is said to have rebuked the Emperor of Germany for his message sent to Kruger. Several outrages have been committed on German residents in Poplar (Middlesex), and some of the German Clubs in Lopdon have been closed. The tone of the German papers is less hostile, and they advocate the matter be submitted to arbitration. The Frenph press is also much quieter. The American papers universal!}' condemn the action of Germany. Sydney, This Day. One of the Cape Commissioners, referring to Jamieson's denunciation, says he may be condemned for his impetuosity, but considers there was sufficient warrant for the step he took, and he thought he would havp been warmly backed up by the loyal Cape colonists. He expresses the opinion that Jamiesou was certainly betrayed. T^e recent accident looks treacherous if it is true that the carriages were occupied by fugitives from Johannesburg. He quite expected to learn of Rhodes' resignation, but regards ib as a national calamity. Sprigg is an able financier, and unquestionably tho best man to nil the vacancy, but he has not the organising skill of Rhodes.