, 1891-05-20

properly req uired he preferred OF reserve
until a detailed account of the real events
on the Pungwe River had been rece lived in
the dispatches.
Lord Knutsford, in the House of Lords
on April 81 expounded the policy of the
Government in regard to theINewfoundlanu
Fisheries Bill. The measure will be pro.
ceeded with to the completion Of its stages
in the House of Lords. That, as the Colo
NAL Secretary pointed out, is rendered ne
cessary by the close approach of the fishing
season, and the terms Of the engagements
into which the country has entered with
France. On reaching the House of Com
mons, however, its progress will be temper
.arily suspended, and its second reading will
not be!taken in that House until WhitSuntide
holidays. If, in the meanwhile, the Colo
NAL Legislature passes an Act sufficient to
secure the observance and execution of the
modus Uiuendi, of the decision of the arbi-
traitors on the lobster question, and of the
treaties and declarations entered into, then
the Bill will be dropped. Now if the under.
takings given by Sir William Whlteway at
the Bar of the Upper House have been right
ly interpreted this arrangement ought to he
quite satisfactory to the Observation-Disclosures.
They have through their delegates, profess.
ed themselves. willing and ready to legis-
late in the sense required, and Her Majes.
tvs Government are, on their part, quite
pre- pared to confer with them az they wish
on the details Of the proposed legislation.
All that il stipulated for on the Imperial
side is that, inasmuch as there are Difficult
ties of an international character which re-
quire very full discussion and careful hand.
ling at home, the passage of the Colonial
Bill shall not be delayed until after "a set
Element is arrived 1T.
It was towards midnight on April "a,
when the young Emperor OF Germany, who
Was staying at the Warrburg, whittier he
had gone as the guest Of his grand-uncle,
the Grand Dake of SAKE WeinaI, on u
shooting expedition, was awOke and startled
by the receipt of a telegram from Berlin
announcing that Field Marsha Count Won
Noltke had suddenly died. After recover
ing his compOsure, His Majesty at one
telegraphed back to Berlin IL am deeply
affected. / have lost a whole army. |
am coming home at once" Replying later
on to a message OF sympathy from the
Senate of Bremen, the Emperor telegra PHI
ed - II and the Empire have suffered
an irreparable loss" This was also the
4CClIuS Will WHICH ItOklc u DtIIlll diQ all
over Germany awoke on the following
morning to fud that another Of the chief
creators of the Empire had at last paid the
debt of his mortality leaving Bismarck and
Blumenthal as almost the only connecting
links between the present and The past OF
AuOdern Germany. The news was all the
more affecting as ii was wholly unexpected,
sor the last few weeks had furnished Count
V"n Moltke'S cOuntrymen with ample evil
drnce of the continued vigour and hopeful.
nes of his powers. Even on the day Of his
death he spent a few hours at a sitting of
lhe Upper Chamber Of the PruSsian Diet.
From that sitting he walked nome alone, as
WAS his won't. through the Thiergarten to
AIS old official residence in the building of
ahe Grand General Staff on the Konigs-
platz, in the continued possession of which
and other honours and perquiSites he was
confirmed by the present Emperor on re-
signing his post a year or two ago. Then
he dined, as usual with his nephew, Major
Won Moltke-whO also acted as his personal
.aide-de.camp-and several other guests.
Dinner over, the Count took a short nap,
.as was his custom, and then drank u cup
at tea, after which he settled dOwn to his
nightly rubber of whist, which was always
just as essential to his nights rest as sleep