Foreign.

Manawatu Herald, 28 January 1896, Page 2

Foreign.

President Cleveland says Senator Davies' motion affirming sovereign rights over tbe Panama Isthmus is inopportune, and would cause mischief and prove a misfortune if , carried.

In the Senate, Senator Walcott protested against the prevailing Jingoistic spirit, and demanded friendly settlement of the dispute with England. His speech was wildly cheeked by the occupants of the public galleries. Mr Smalley, the well-known journalist, says that if Lord Salisbury publishes a statement of the British case in the Venezuela dispute it will greatly help an amicable settlement. Senator Lodge declares that any attempt to rouse the Jingoes will fail. The Government regards the request to arbitrate over the Venezuelan question as having lapsed, and strongly advises Venezuela to end the dispute. The Russian Government has submitted to the Czar a proposal to expend 400,000,000 roubles, extending over a term of seven years, in building a warship for each warship constructed by England. The Czar has approved the scheme. It is reported that France will anqex Madagascar, and that the Queen will be maintained there. News has been received that the Shoas in great force have surrounded nine hundred Italians at Makaleh. The allowance for the troops is only a glass of water and wine daily. An attempt to secure additional provisions under fire failed. The surrender ef the Italian foroe is imminent. A report presented to the Reichstag shows that the population of the German colonies, excluding the south-west of Africa, is -70,000, and that they cost the Government eleven million marks per year, while trace is only nominal. General Jonbert declares that -weapons are still being discovered in the Rand, which he says, indicates that treachery still exists. King Menelik has permitted the Italian troops to vacate Makaleh, the enemy assisting in the transport. Overtures for peace are pending.