The Feilding Star, Oraua & Kiwitea Counteis Gazette. Published Daily. FRIDAY, JANUARY 10, 1896. GREEDY RUSSIA.

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 161, 10 January 1896, Page 2

The Feilding Star, Oraua & Kiwitea Counteis Gazette. Published Daily. FRIDAY, JANUARY 10, 1896. GREEDY RUSSIA.

Most of our readers will have read the anecdote told of a continental general who visited England shortly after Napoleon, the disturber of tbe peace of Europe, was confined in St. Helena. Riding through London he rapturously exclaimed " Oh, what a delightful place to loot." The same feeling apparently exists now among tbe Russians in regard to the English mercantile navy, for the press in St Petersburg, we are told, have been urging concerted action among the Powers in the Transvaal incident, so as to enable Russia to use the Dutch and Portuguese colonies as naval stations tot intercept our Indian and the Australian vessels. As it happens tbe Transvaal crisis may now be considered a thing of tbe past, Russia will have to find some other means to gain tbe desired object. It is just as well, however, that English people, both at Home and in the colonies, should realise the position, and keep before them tbe unpleasant fact that a powerful European nation is watching their steady increase in " lands and money " with greedy and jealous eyes, waiting for the slightest pretence to commence the game of plunder.