IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.
I [per prkrs association] London. August 8. Mr Maartney presented a petition from South Australia to the- House of Commons against Home Rule. Mr Gladstone intimated that fche House will not adjourn till the Home Rule Bill and supply have passed. A recess will then be taken and another session held in the autumn. Mr W. B rod rick, member of the House of Commons for Guildford, in J addressing a political meeling stigmatised Mr Gladstone as. an old donkey, and said that it was time he was turned out. The audience became very indignant and turned on Mr Brodrick, who fled from the meeting and took refuge in a farmhouse. Mr Chaplain contended in the House of Commons that the closing of the mints had despoiled India of £20,000,000. ; / Sir W. Harcourt retorted thai it was a mischievous statement, made with a view to influence Native opinion. Sir John Lubbock considered that the increased value of the rupee would recoup the loss on uncoined silver.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XIV, Issue 3048, 10 August 1893, Page 3
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168IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. Ashburton Guardian, Volume XIV, Issue 3048, 10 August 1893, Page 3
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