BRITISH PARLIAMENT.
THE NEWFOUNDLAND QUES TION.
DUKE OF CLARENCE'S DEATH
[PRESS ASSOCIATION.]
[by electric telegraph—copyright.]
London, February 10. In the House of Lords the Marquis of Salisbury stated the negotiations re" specting the Newfoundland difficulty were in abeyance, as the rash criticism of the Government's action by the Gladstone party had induced France to believe that there was no hope of securing the execution or the award of the arbitrators.
The speeches in both Houses of the Legislature were couched in a tone of deep sympathy for the death of the Duke of Clarence, and the fact that the Royal family had not bid for a universal outburst of world-wide sorrow was much noted.
Sir Michael Hicks-Beach, President of the Board of Trade, replying to Mr Lowther's amendment regarding treaties, said the provisions objected to were doubtless relics of a past generation, but the proposals suggested by the British Empire Trade League and others were a miserable substitute for a Zollverein between the colonies and Great Britain.
In the House of Commons, Mr T. Sexton has tabled a notice of motion regarding the failure of the Irish Land Purchase Act.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXIII, Issue 35, 11 February 1892, Page 5
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