Manawatu Hearald. THURSDAY, JUNE 16, 1898. Turkestan.
A very considerable area of land between tke Russian Empire and India is styled Turkestan, and is owned nominally by Russia and China. The cablegrams announcing that reports received at St. Petersburg in regard to the rising at Ferghana, in Asiatic Russia, allege it to be the result of a secret understanding with the Turkish authorities at Con stautinople. The map of Asia shows ■,bat Fergana is situated just north of the Pamir Plateau, the boundaries of the Russian territory in that neighbourhood having been the subject of a boundary Commission between Great Britain and Russia some two years or so, ago. The easterly portion, being that portion inferred to, is a lofty tableland, and the western portion is partly hilly -md well watered, but the pain* generally are of shifting sand interspersed with oases, strips of fertile land along the rivers. The Russians apparently value it from the TransCaspian railway running through it, otherwise the province? do not. pay the charges of occupation and administration. As some guide as to hti probabilities of the rumours as to the source of the rising being true, it may as well be remembered .hii, th.^ Turconnns balong to the -samy UiV-Altaie «<.ck from which he O manli Turks of Turbpy are defend'd. We fiud from ihe.?e facts :hht there is a community of feeling and religion between the Turcomans and the Turks, but sill the map shows » very lon-,' stre eh f country from C'jn.t.inunop'e to Ferghana. Far as it looks the Ttjiki have large possessions in A3ia which in a way stretch almost up to the disturbed territory. Opposite Constantinople the Turks hold Asia Minor, Syria and the greater part of Armenia, Kurdistan, Mesopotamia, che western portion of Arabia and other lands on Shß eastern side of the Persian Gulf. Persia, the intervening country between the Turks and the Turcomans is Mohammedan, and out of the four races, the Turks, though not the Osmanli Turk, are the most numerous. The explanation show 3 how it would be possible for the ruler at Constantinople to influenco the inhabitants of Turkestan, but why ho should is not so clear, unles3 the Sultan also hears the roar of the coming war, and hope* to create a division at Russia's floor to enable her to carry out further reforms (!) or massacres in Armenia.'to which Russia had objfcti d, whilst she is engaged in the dispute with Great Briiain about the partition of China. Russia is known to work her wishes by devious routes and it may be quite possible that =ho ha 3 stirred up this rising to give her an opportunity of accusing the Tui ks, und using it as an opportunity to declare war against her at any moment. To our mind this seems j he most reasonable conclusion to come to, as if Russia was engaged in war with Great Britain she must have Turkey either a* an ally or a fop, for uu'o Turkey te entrusted tha guarding of the Straits of Cjnsfantioople through which no foreign man-of-war is to be allowed to pass, and which arrangement if given effect to, locks the Russian Black Sea fleet safely up in its own waters. An excuse to seize the shores on either side of these Straits, so as to obtain access to the Mediterranean would make the passage of these waters less dangerous to the Russiau warships, though there would be the English Mediterranean fleet to face. This there would always be, but the possession of the land fortifications .vould remove one great peril, and as to the English fleet there might most likely be a French fleet to act in unison with Russia. The " sick man " of Turkey is evidently being considered as to how he can be used to the best advantage of his enemies.
Mr Hillary has accepted the tender of the Messrs Newth for the lease of the property he advertised. Iv luiry is made of the whereabouts of a youn^ man named Harry Haggetf. Tin Wanganui Education Hoard has authorized the Foxton School Committee to p;- jcure the material for fencing. Is hi 3 a joke ? At the last meeting of the Tlorowhenua County Council the follow; ig resolution, proposed by Cr Engels, seco ldecl by Cr Bartholomew, was carried : — Thai this Council is convinced of the necr\S3ity of placing the county in r.n efficient state of defence, but consider it the duty of the responsible representatives of the people to promulgate a scheme and adjust the burden of taxation. The Otaki Mail says, we hear on good authority that Messrs J. O. Wilson and C. B. Morison will contest the Otaki seat at the next general election. Mr George Fisher, M.H.R., is also spoken of as a probable candidate. As indicating the friendly rotations between Great Britain and the United States, many people (the Daily ChromcVs New York correspondent cables) are wearing the lion and eagle crowned by the flags of their respective countries. The button has the Inscription : Invincible in war, triumphant in peace ; one tongue, one purpose. There are about 1900 islands in the Philippines, with an aggregate area of about 150,000 square miles. "At present (says Town Topics, N.Y., of 12th May) we hod the cape-point of one of these 1900 islands, and cover xtith out gUns about one square mile of the 150,060. There are about 10,000,000 persons living on these i3'ands, the vast majority of them wholly unciviis^d. To con.rol this barbaric horde Acting Ilear-Admiral Dcwey has a force of ISOO men, of which possibly 600 could be used for a landing force. So, plainly, there is no pressing necessity to decide on the jump what disposition we shou'd make of the Philippines. We can solvi'th^ pr>b'em in a minute when we ge - th-.m."' During the late Mr Gadston V, 'a-H il'ness the University of Ox ? or«l saut a message of sympathy, and thi !'•>' owing reply was sent to the Viee-Chanco! or :— " There is no exp>e*sion of (.'lu'l.stian sympathy that I value more than that of the anci-nt Uirivrr-ity of Oxford, the Godfearing nnd God-3'.n aining University of Oxford. I served Iv.-r, perhaps mistakenly, but to ihe best of uiy ability. My most earnest prayers aiv hers to the uttermost and to the last." All can s^e the exquisite pathos of the message, but every Oxford man the world over musk feel a thrill of deep emotion as he reads this last greeting to the old seat of culture sent by the great son who served her so long, so loyally, and so well. The organ-grinder as he is vulgarly called, is a stupendous pest in the towns of England, and those who remembered them had hoped to pass their lives in peace away from them in this colony. But it was not to be, as a couple of days ago, an organ, a monkey, and a man were entertaining a group of children on the Moutoa road. At the last meeting of the Wanganui Education Board £7 was voted to the Oroua Bridge Committee to repay money advanced by Mr Dunk, nnd the question of fencing was referred to the Building Committee. Mr J. H. Hankins wrote to the effect that the completion of title to school ground was awaiting the Native Land Court. The Nicaragua Ship Canal r o npany has offered to transfer to the United States Government 700,000 shares on condition that that Government guaran'eed the company's bond issue of 100,000,000d0l (£20,0---00,000. The latest development in connection wiih the Te Aro House case, in which John Craig, the former manager of the establishment, has to stand his trial for alleged embezz emend, is says the NZ. Times that Mr T. You solicitor, acting on behalf of Craig, has issued a wris against James Smi.h an;l W. H. Carter, Lading under the name of Jame3 Smith and Co., for £950. This amount is sa : d to be balance of account for services rendered, and money deposited for the firm by Craic. The suit cannot te determined at the present civil sittings of the Court, and wi 1 have to stand over until nex'. terra. It is understood that the quesion of account as between the partie3 will be settled by the action. The defendant's so'icitors are Sir Robert Stout and Dr Findlay. During a performance of Harmston's circus at Gawler, 25 miles from Adelaide, a tiger seized its trainer by the neck and jumped over a hurdle with him into a cage. The animal's attention was diverted, and the trainer rescued, but his wounds are Berious. The audienoe was panio-strieken, and rushed out of the tent. At Biccarton the other night, the Minister of Lands returned to the charge about the Bank of New Zealand. He said "he knew the New Zealand Times would go for him when he made his Palmers ton speeoh because it was the property of some of the Direotors of the Bank. He did not care a straw for their abuse, and would go on in his own fasbon by doing what he found was his best policy. He said at Palmerston it was the officerd of the Bank who had deceived the Government. Those officers were there yet, and he would say again that the Bank of New Zealaad would never thrive so long as it was managed by officers wHo had deceived the Bank as they had done. ... If they could get clear of the Bank to-morrow, and get clear of our liabilities, it would be a good thing for New Zealand. If we could not do so we must put it into a proper posioion, and have proper men on it. Daring the absence of the Premier in England he had not wanted to have a row with the Bank and he had steered clear of it. They thought he had forgotten it. Ha had not forgotton, however, and he would make them squeak yet."
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