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Show SALISBURYS TROUBLE. The British Prime Minister Anxious to Settle the Fisheries Dispute by Arbitration. . HE IS ALSO BULLYING POBTUGAL The British Foreign Office in a Pickle Begardinc; the Hew Hebrides Want to Sieze the Islands. London, Oct. 16. Lord Salisbury is anxious to arrange for arbitration- of the fisheries dispute before the opening of parliameut. He has taken this subject sub-ject up as one of the first demanding his attention upon his return from the continent. . He is also engaged in bullying Portugal, Portu-gal, and it is stated on good naval authority that Admiral Seymour will shortly proceed to Lisbon to make a demonstration that will bring the augry Portuguese to terms. The British foreign office is also in a pickle in relation to the New Hebrides, which the Australians are endeavoring to detach from the French. Australian settlers at Vila, in one of the islands, have discarded the French name of their settlement, formed a municipality on English lines and elected as thoir president presi-dent a Swede named Peterson. Tho settlers are anxious that an official representative from Australia should take up his residence among them. A combination has been formed for annexation to Australia, and the French authorities are deliberating whether to suppress the movement by force or to be content with an appeal to Great Britian. The Germans. English and French all appear to be equally responsible for the cruel kidnaping of the native people peo-ple of these and other Polynesian islands, is-lands, which was the real cause of the recent massacre of the crew of the Upola, a German labor or kidnaping vessel. |