The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1896-04-02
THE DELAGOA BAY RUMOR.
SECRETARY CHAMBERLAIN De
MED ANY PURCHASES THERE
ABOUTS BY ENGLAND.
THE SALISBURY MINISTRY ATTACKED
BY Lord ROscbcry for Its Foreign Com
pIications Reported as COun-
tcrmarchcd Into Santa Clara Pro-
vince-Othcr Items.

vince-Othcr Items.
a London. March 27.-NIr George \
CurzOn, the under secretary Of state 70
foreign affairs, was asked in the hous
Of commons today if there was any trutI
in the report that Great Britain had pur
' chased Dclago Bay with the whole stri
Of territory from Amatonga on the soutI
to the Chartered Africa company's ter
ritOry on the north, the Limpopo rive
constituting the eastern boundary. for tn,
sum of E5,OOOOOO
Mr.. Curzon declined to reply. sayin.
that the government must insist on propeI
: notice being given Of such Il question
Mr.. CnrzOn. replying TO Il question re
! garding the failure of France to cndorS,
the use of the Egyptian reserve fund fol
the purposes Of the Nile expeditions saiC
that the French government does not con
slider vote of n majority of the Egyptian
debt commission TO DE sufficient to war.
rant the use of that fund for the expenses
of the expedition.
| Mr.. CurZOn added that none of the
other powers had formally expressed an
opinion.
Referring TO the action taken against
the Egyptian debt commissioners at
| Cairo, Mr.. CurzOn remarked that certain
French bondholders had summoned the
commission to appear before the tribu-
mails Oh April Is.
| The first lord of the treasury. Mr.. A.
j. Balfour, stated that he had received II
| letter from the Duke of Cambridge say
| ing that he would have accepted the extra
| pension proposed if it had been granted
unanimously; but that as it was opposed
| by the late secretary of war, he could
not allow the government to proceed in
| the matter.
ROSEBERY BOASTS SALISBURY.
London. March 27.-The Earl of Rose
berry, leader of the Liberal party, made
an important speech tonight before the
National Liberal federation.
Lord ROsebery complained of the for
cign complications which had come upon
the country since Lord Salisbury had
come into office. He argued that the bill
of Mr.. Long, president of the agricultural
board, proposing TO make permanent the
restrictions on the importation of Cana
dian cattle was wholly inconsistent with
Colonial Secretary Chamberlain's speech
on Wednesday before the Canada club
suggesting small tariff on food products
md raw material imported into Great
Rrii,, in from elsewhere than his colonies
In return for the free entry of British
manufactures ln,c all the colonies.
His scheme for m imp erlal zoilVerclh IN
the colonies and Grcnt Brt,uh' L9rd
Rosebery, continued, speaking OF 'n,S
speech, demands very grave considera-
ton by both those who propose it and
by those who have to vote upon it.
He asked If this was a cabinet propo-
sal, or was it the program of an individ-
ual, and why, before making the pro-
posals, the government mad introduced
the diseased animal bill, which was Il
final dampcf upon one of the great re-
sources of trl'in of the Canadian breeders
with Great britain. He did not know
how to rccooRle these two, but he strong
ly SUSPECTED that the Canadian thinker
and politician and the man of business
would prefer not to have had this great
scheme promulgated on condition that
Mr.. Longs bill had not been submitted.
He had only one thing to add and that
was that he did not think Mr. Chamber
lain in anywise under estimated the views
of the people of Grcnt Britain aud the
difficulties he would have to surmount
with regard to free trade hhd foreign
trade before he could succeed in putting
his scheme into effect.
Lord Rosebcry further charged the
government with deplorable want of
pointed out that within six months they
had been on the verge of war with the
United States and then with Germany.
and now they were embarking on war
against no particular enemy that he could
discover. He passed over the black and
bloody page of Armenia, he said, which
Englishmen would all look back to with
shame and remorso
Lord Salisbury up to the end of Decem-
| hnl N
hund. BY the beginning of January his
continuous policy had landed Great Brit
ain in the arms of France. whose alice
tons it was intended to gain by the mon
strous Siam convention. That state had
lasted about six weeks and then Lord
Salisbury embarks in march to the
Soudan, which outragcs France ana
throws Great Britain back into the arms
of the drcibund.
Lord Rosebsry then proceeded in de-
tail to very strongly criticise the Nile cN-
petition. Continuing, Lord koSehcrE
complained of the indecision and failure
of the government to take the country
into their confidence. He greatly feared
that the government was toollng them
selves as well MS the country. Was II
the time. he asked. when we were
mcnaccd with complications in all quart
crs of the world to scatter our forces III
| the deserts of Soudan in Il war nobody
could forcscc the end of and to waste
| the money which Egypt needed for irri-
cation work. The remainder of his
speech was devoted to home politics.
SEMl-OFFICIAIIN DENIED.
London. March PIT was scmi-otti-
cially denied this afternoon that the gov
crnmcnt has purchased Dclago Bay and
an adjacent strip of territory.
ALI. HOPE ABANDONED.
Wellington. y. H.. March 2I.-All hope
of saving the 60 miners who were en-
tombed in a mine at Brulnerton yesterday
by an explosion of fire damp, which killed
five men outright. has been abandoned.
| The bodies of 10 of the miners have been
recovered from the pit. around which
there were the usual scenes of distress
caused by the presence there of the wives
and other relatives of the men entomhcd.
Many of the men engaged in the work
| of rescue have been overcome and there
|