The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1886-09-29
FOREIGN.
The Alleged Fishery Treaty Pro-
nounced a Pure Fabrication.
Parliament Not Likely to Meet Until
Next Year.
Who Is Responsible for the Whole
sale Massacre in China?

LONDON, Sept. 2S.-High authority says
that the alleged treaty between Canada and
the United States, published last week. is a
pure fabrication. No treaty whatever ON
the subject has been under consideration.
| The United States, indeed, has declined TO
negotiate with view to any new compact.
The chances are that parliament viii not
| meet again till next year. The government
talk ''talP' in public, but in private they are
using their influence with the landlords to
| get them to abstain from evictions. Sir
| Michael Hicks-Beach is in Ireland, where al
| ready he has done much painstaking work.
He is a moderate man by temper, and II ne
can keep the Orange faction In check he
may, by sort Of informal understanding
with Mr.. Parnell, just save rent war. On
the other hand the Standard interprets MIR.
ParnelPs letter to Mr.. fitzgerald as de-
claration of war, and describes 1t as an in
flammatory invective. 1t cannot understand
how Mr.. Parnell could put his name to such
a document. 1t says:
This eleemosynary manifesto tears away the
veil which was woven for the purpose OF the gem
eral election around the real temper and tendency
of the separatist party
Mr. Clifford Lloyd will not go to Ireland
The colonial office is very sorry and sur
prised to see him in England at all. 1t has
given him shelving Appointment to Schelle's
Island. Mr.. Lloyd had difficulties with the
who is a strong nationalist Henry Mat
thews'old opponents in Dungaryon have been
telling numerous stories OF the nome secre-
tary's professional speeches, in one OF which
he referred to the SANITY Rosa, pining in
a whig dungeon" General Willoughby, the
English commander Of the native forces in
Madagascar takes serious view OF the
French action, and he declares that M. de
Freycinet is endeavoring to repudiate the
acts of his own agents. He says that II the
independence of Madagascar is threatened
there will be another war. be is hne,
soldierly man, splendid type of the Eng
sh n6 ad
tic over the gallantry of the Hoyas and the
resources of the country
That Alleged Treaty.
LONDON, Sept. 2S.-The foreign Office and
the United States Legation authorize the
statement that the report telegraphed from
Ottawa that new fisheries treaty had been
effected between the United States and Can
ada is an entire Justification, and that no
such treaty has been proposed by either gov
ernment.
Who was to Blame for the Massa-
ere.
LONDON, Sept. 2S-Hong Kong advices
state that there is a dispute between the
Methodist and Catholic missionaries in Chr
ma as to what denomination is responsible
for the indiscretions that melted the recent
wholesale massacre of Christians in the
Provice of Sc Chun. The Catholic bishop
of Chung Khing has attributed the outbreak
OF Vl0leuce III LnaJ CITY 10 tHe luulSCIccG COn-
duct of the Methodists. The latter, howev-
er, declare that in Chum Khing the massacre
of tnative Christians, and the destruction OF
their churches and property were due entire
ly to the popular Indignation aroused by the
Catholic bishop who persistently used yellow
titles in the construction of his new cathe-
dral in spite of repeated warnings. 1t was
dangerous to do so becaused it outraged the
native faith by making use of color vtnera-
ted as sacred and reserved exclusively for
the EmnprOr