The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-12-31
IN CENTRAL AFRICA.
The Trouble Between England
and Portugal
WILL BE AMICABLY SETTLED.
Queer Remark About Royal Grants-Ad-
vancing Civil Service Reform.

Especial to THE NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Cable.l
office positively denies that any sort of CO.
ercive naval demonstration was ever in
tended at Lisbon on the part of the Medi-
terranean squadron. 1t is stated that the
ordering of four men-of-war from Malta to
the Tagus was designed solely as friendly
demonstration in honor of the proclama
ton of Don Carlos as King of Portugal
For fear of further public misconception of
the situation, the orders to send the iron
clads have been countermanded, and they
will assemble at Gibraltar instead of pro-
ceeding to Lisbon.
The report that Lord Salisbury and
Mr.. Blaine are acting in concert in
relation to the affairs of Portugal in
Africa is not correct. In his last inter
view with the Portuguese minister to Eng
land, Senior d. Antas, Lord Salisbury put
the dispute in train for settlement. Senior
d'Antas proposed that a treaty should be
drawn up, based on the arrangement which
the British consul had effected with
the Portuguese government, but this pro-
position was rejected by Lord Salisbury
because NyassalaId was not wholly in
cluded in British territory. Senior
British government full rights over the
narrow bank of territory which extends
from Matabelaland to Tanganyika. Lord
Salisbury demands further concession of
British rights over the southwest shores
Lake Nyassa, including upper Shirt river
and Shirt highland, where British mission
and trading posts have long been in opera
ton. An ultimate friendly settlement of
the dispute is quite certain, and all rumors
to the contrary are without basis. Consul
tombstone is now making a tour of the
country around Nyassa and Tanganyika,
obtaining the submission of the chiefs
throughput this district to the British gov
eminent ana distributing British flags
everywhere.
A PARTISAN of Bushiri attacked Baga-
merice on Wednesday, but was repulsed.
The Arabs, instead of being submissive to
German rule, as it was hoped they would
be, are already gathering in force again,
and it is believed that another Wissmann
expedition is inevitable.
The true explanation of the continueda p-
parent misunderstanding about Central
Africa is that the cabinet at Lisbon is in a
peculiar position, owing to the necessities
of its position in face of an aggressive
Republican agitation. 1t is obliged to play
a game of verbal bluff in order to keep up
an appearance of viril colonial policy and to
avoid giving the opposition the means of a
strong argument with the unthinking
masses. At the same time Lord Salisbury
is quietly assured that he will obtain all
that he demands and that the settlement of
the dispute viii be entirely agreeable to
England.
A great crown colony is about to be de-
clared in Western Africa. 1t is to embrace
the embouchere of the Niger river from
Lagos to the German cameroons. The
merchants of Palmoil coast have applied
to the government for charter similar to
that of the Niger company. Lord Sails
bury has sent Major Macdonald to investi-
gate the condition of the protectorate and
report to him upon it. Major Macdonald
reports that there have been enormous
recent developments in the trade in that
section and that it would be impolitic to
allow the tremendous resources of the
country to be worked by chartered com
paEies. The country, he says, ought to be
made a colony. The English trading
houses at Lagos and the colonies are also
opposed to the granting of a charter. In
consequence of all this the government has
decided to make the district a British
colony under direct control of crown.