The Feilding Star, Oroua & Kiwitea Counties Gazette. Published Daily. THURSDAY, JULY 8, 1897. THAT YOUNG MAN WILLIAM.

Feilding Star, Volume XIX, Issue 7, 8 July 1897, Page 2

The Feilding Star, Oroua & Kiwitea Counties Gazette. Published Daily. THURSDAY, JULY 8, 1897. THAT YOUNG MAN WILLIAM.

The following extract from a letter written by the Times correspondent at Vienna who would appear to be a very thoughtful observer, explains that the new rapprochement between Russia and Austria, though it shows that Russia has no intention of attacking Germany, rather isolates the latter Power, a statement repeated in rather acrid tones by the German Press That is correct, arid is one of tho many reasons which make it probable that Germany will seek closer relations with Russia, and that the end will be an alliance of the three Emperors. It would be, as we believe, an immediate one, but that both the Eastern Sovereigns find it difficult to avoid a certain distrait of the erratic and self-willed German Emperor who pursues intermittently a policy of his ova, tbe key of which it is hard to find. We are not at all sure that it should not be sought in the new Emigration Sill by which his Majesty seeks power to direct in future the torrent of German emigra* tion. If he can do tbat he can, he thinks, send such crowds of Germans to South Africa that, as one member of the Reichstag remarked, he " may be able to help our kinsmen and friends the Boers in tbeir struggle againßt tbe English." The threat is not of much importance, as tbe last ihinga German emigrant desires is control by the German Government, he greatly preferring the English or American ; but it throws a certain tight upon German policy. 'Tf I can I get Holland,' thinks William 11, <I get ships, colonies, and commerce, and South Africa.' It is a far-reaching plan, or dream.