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[Reuter's Special to Star.]
LONDON, May 4.
It is announced that Lord Frederick Cavendish, Financial Secretary to the Treasury, has been appointed Chief Secretary for Ireland, vice Mr. E. Forster, resigned.
Michael Davitt, who has been in custody in Portand Prison for some time past, has now been released. Mr. Parnell and other Irish members, who have recently been released have arrived in London, and have commenced their Parliamentary duties.
As the outcome of several Conservative meetings Sir Michael Hicks-Beach will, on Monday, demand from Government a full statement as to their Irish policy. Should the declaration be deemed inadequate, he will move a vote of censure on the Government.
May 5.
The homeward Australian and New Zealand mails via San Francisco, which left Auckland on the 28th March, were delivered in London yesterday.
It has transpired that the exchange of communications between tbt Powers which have been proceeding for some time on the subject of the Egyptian question, has resulted in an agreement arrived at to substitute Prince Hallim in place of Tewfik Pasha on the Egyptian throne, if this should become necessary, to abandon the principle of occupation of Egypt, and to leave the initiative in Egyptian affairs to France.
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume III, Issue 245, 8 May 1882, Page 2
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