THE ROYAL VISIT.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXII, Issue 46, 23 February 1901, Page 5

THE ROYAL VISIT.

ARRANGEMENTS IN VICTORIA

(Received 10.3 a.m.)

SYDNEY, this day

Lord Flopctmjn has sanctioned a programme for the Duke of Cornwall and York's visit in Melbourne. The chief events am: Landing at St. Kikla i and procession through the streets, ; May 6th; opening nf Parliament on the 9th; review 0... (he 10th, visit to Ballarat, where the I Juke will lay the foundation stone of a monument to the soldiers who have fallen in South Africa, on the 13th, and a.shooting expedition up country on the 10th. The intervening days will be devoted to various social and public functions. All invitations to the celebrations are being forwarded by Sir Barton, as Federal Premier, on behalf of the Victorian Government. THE IRISH LAND QUESTION. VIOLENT SPEECHES IN THE COMMONS. LONDON, February 22. In the House of Commons Mr. .7. E. Redmond moved an amendment to the Address-in-Reply, asking Imperial credit for compulsory wholesale purchase of land in Ireland. Mr. T. W. Russell, in a violent speech, seconded the motion, urging that a timely concession should be made lest bloodshed should ensue. The land owners, he asserted, were mere rout chargers. Mr. A. J. Balfour, First Lord f>f the Treasury, said compulsion would be wild and ruinous, and it would also ruin the labourers. The Irish Lands ; Purchase Acts had successfully created sixty thousand peasant proprietors.

Mr. G. Wyndham said it was impossible to risk 120 millions and plunge Ireland into litigation.

Mr. Bannerrnau supported the amendment, which was rejected by 235 to 140. The Irish Nationalist press remind the electors that their claims were only granted in response to turbulent violence, and a refusal to pa}' rents.