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Manawatu Times, Volume II, Issue 63, 26 May 1877, Page 3

- At v a pttblie-dinnef, M. Bolitj a Croatian, made the following remarkable speech i- 1- " Battle of Sadowa has decided the destinies 6f the European Easfc In "consequence cfit the German world has been separated from the Slavonian. What remains to be done is to solve the Slavonian question,:— a task to be fulfilled by the Slavonians themselvesi and chiefly; by Eiiissia. Eussia"|jgsnSepjen, is no longer it is Slavoril^^^^^rEanslayOni^iit vTHe resources' a%^^H^^^'|)osal are not: onl^ mateiial, ; tTie^^^^^^i'O moral. Slavonic Euasia is no menac^^^iyilisation, tut only prepares Europe fdrJ-mt^ssing the re-union;of the Slavonian . family,> the first blow m the great struggle musil;be the cutting- through, the Eastern, knot. This is a matter affecting as much the honoi^of ! the Eussiari' people as the interests/ of the EussiaA^Empiie. We,.the Eastern Slavonic ansjwe, the Eastern orthodox Christians ; ; -wejithe": Servians, hope and trust that Russia wiUynot forget the catastrophe -of Eossof, whicb. overthrew the Servian Etnpirej but. soonidp her. duty and commence her appointed.:work^. Iproppse-the speedy solution of theEas^ern Question." : : "'■'- -