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Show KIMBERLY TO SUCCEED CRANVILLE. S.lnljury Talc. Aotli.Q on th. Cloaing of Oi. Nilrtta Fort, or Dole. London, April 14. A meeting of the members of the house of lords .who compose the liberal party in that body was held today. It transpires that the Karl of Kiraber-ly. Kiraber-ly. who held many high offices, is to succeed (pro tenil the Karl of Granville as liberal leader in the house of lords. Salisbury sent a cahle dispatch to tho Hritish minister at Santiago de Chile and another to the British admiral in command of the Pacific station. In these dispatches tho Hritish premier pre-mier says the closiug of the Nitrate Ni-trate ports of Chile by the order of Presideut Ralmaeeda is ultra vires, in so much that the blockade of these been officially declared. Lord Salisbury Salis-bury also notified the Hritish ship owners interested in the trade with Chili that the British admiral in Chilian waters will protect their interests, and that F.ngland does not recognize the double exaction duties du-ties now collected by the Chilian congress con-gress party and by President Ualrua-re-Ja's adherents, but Salisbury advised the British merchants to pay tire double duty in order to avoid troublo and do so under protest. |