The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-02-27
ENGLAND'S WORRIES
Greece and, the Transvaal
Keep Salisbury in
Bad Health.
CUBA BoBS UP IN THE COMMONS
Theatres and Yachting Occupy John
Bulls Leisure Valkyrie
at Gourock.
CUBA BOBS UP IN THE COMMONS
at Gourock.
7R Gable to The United Press,

LONDON, Feb. q, 1S97-Prime Minister
Salisbury y not enjoying good health.
His old trouble, over-stoutness, is again
bothering him. Notwithstanding the
burdens of state which he carries on his
shoulders he has this winter greatly in
creased in weight. 1t is necessary that
he should rid himself of some of his adj
pose tissue, and as soon as the Eastern
to drink the waters at some of the
medicinal springs after which he will
join the Marchioness of Salisbury, who
Is passing the season in the south of
France 1t, is not to be supposed that
during the months when Lord Salisbury
did not visit the Foreign Office that he
was not devoting himself to his official
duties He has always been busy with
affairs of State and every day dispatches
for his consideration and information
were sent to Hatfield House, his residence
in Hertfordshire
The proposals for the settlement of the
Cretan troubles are widely commented
upon by the newspapers throughout the
country. The Conservative organs, as
rule, lind in them a full solution of the
difficulty. but there is a divergence of
opinion on the part of the Liberal organs
The Manchester Guardian speaking in
behalf of the Liberals, says it has no OBJ
lection to the scheme for granting au-
tonoIny to the island, but it strongly OBJ
Jects to the Greek troops being COM
peiled to withdraw before the Turks. Sir
William Vernon-Harcourt, the leader of
the Liberal party, and the Earl of Kim
berley, the leader of the Liberals in the
House OF Lords, have decided to follow
this line when the debate on the Cretan
question takes place at the beginning of
next week
The more advanced Liberals back
Greece in the attitude she has assumed.
The Right Hon. Arthur Dyke Acland.
who was a member of the last Liberal
Cabinet. delivered a speech at Northamp-
ton last night, in which he referred to
the Cretan trouble. Great Britain, he said,
could not redeem the past, but one step
had been taken which would redeem to
some extent the fair fame of Europe
The honor and glory of this step belonged
to Greece.
Complaint is made that Great Britain S
motion is due to the solid interests of
British holders of Turkish and Greek
boDls, and it is said the country is para.
lyzed by the pawnbroking proclivities of
the bondholders.
A despatch received from Athens last
night said that the powers had not yet
succeeded in arriving at an agreement
as TO the nature of the coercive measures
to be applied against Greece in the event
of her refusing to listen to the mandate of
the concert, nor as to the date for the
application of the measures when they
shall be agreed upon.
The passage by the volksraad of the
Transvaal of the bill virtually placing
the. High Court of the Republic under the
vaal crisis Mr.. Chamberlain Secretary
of State for the Colonies, is now ex-
changing communications on the sub
ject with President Kruger. It is re-
ported that he has informed the President
of the. Transvaal that the passage of
the bill amounts to breach of the
thus: An American mining engineer,
named Brown, learning that a farm YVES
about to be proclaimed open for mining,
was, with some OF his friends, the first
with powers of attorney from Others of
his friends, and he pegged out the whole
farm fsdn s the mineral value Of which is
coi,dance with the law of the Transvaal,
but Notwithstanding the fact the
n the Whole eaIasa proeeeding aaw n1fx 5raa
and directing that the claim be disposed
Of by lottery, open to the inhabitants
OF Johannesburg. The High Court de-
clslred this law contrary to the constitu-
tion because it deprived Brown of his
property without compensation There
upon President Kruger induced the Rand
TO pass law altering the tenure and
position of the judges and preventing
them from overruling any statute The
Colonial party in England thinks the
present time a good occasion for Mr..
Ghmaberlain to get back at President
Kruger, and are urging him to take ad-
vantage of 1T. President Kruger, as Mr.
Chamberlain has good cause to know is
NC tyro in law or diplomacy, and another
battle between the two men is quite as
likely as not to result in another dis
comfiture for the perky Colonial Secre-
tary.
in the House of Commons on Monday
Mr.. Patrick OBrien, member for Kill
kenny City, Will ask Mr.. Balfour, the
government leader in the House, whether
the British government has had any COM
municatiops with the United States or
European powers concerning the disturb
ed state of Cuba, and whether the gov
ernment will use its good offices with
Mr.. O'Brien believes that communications
on the subject have been exchanged be-
tween London and Washington.
Mr.. Beerbom Tree will open his theatre
Seats of the Mighty Julius Caesar,
Mrs. Colgate, a New York widow, has
taken the house now occupied by Anbas-
sador Bayard.
The British official mission to Emperor
Menelik, of Abyssi1lia, Is intended to i'm
press him with the size of Englishmen
The mission wiM consist of ndne members,
each of whom is over six feet tall The
leader, Rennell Rodd, and the Military
Secretary Lord Edward Cecil. Lord Sails
burys fourth son. are both six feet three
inches in height. The mission will leave
Cairo about the middle of March.
The uncertainty prevailing in yachting
circles with regard to the rating rule has
had it's effect in the few orders given on
the Clyde and elsewhere in yacht building
yards This applies to sailing yachts
only, as few seasons show such activity
in the construction of steam yachts as
does the present Mr.. Watson is the de-
signer of no less than five of the largest
ones The only racer of Importance in
course of construction at present on the
CLYDE is the Bona, for the Duke de ABB
bruzzi building by D. & w. Henderson
to Watson's design. It is understood that
the Prince of Wales was anxious to dis
bose of the Britannia in order to have
'dknew boat to compete with the Meteor.
7& IS said that the Duke was willing to
15uys hut the price could not be agreed
upon.
The Bona is to be an 50 footer. and as
l5oper. building at Southampton, for Mr..
70. D. Rose, 1t is regarded that that will
be the standard size of future Arst-class
racers All the most recent creations
dare admittedly too unwieldly, and 1t is
quite time that the Yacht Racing Asso-
Cation should effect reduction through
the operation of time allowance. There.
4Ig more than rmnor: that Mr.. Al. B.