SPECIAL TELEGRAMS

New Zealand Herald, Volume XVIII, Issue 5996, 4 February 1881, Page 5

SPECIAL TELEGRAMS

[BY CABLE.] [kkuter's telegrams.] THE IRISH COERCION DEBATE. 1 SCENES IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS. IRISH OBSTRUCTORS LEAVE. COERCION BILL PROGRESSES. Londojj, February 2. The House of ComDaons has been sitting for the last twenty hours on the Irish Coercion Bill. There have been continuous motions for adjournment by the Irish members, but all have been negatived. Scandalous scenes have occurred, and violent language has been used by the obstructors. The Speaker has frequently warned them that their action was verging on wilful obstruction, which could be punished by the House. Mr. Jolm Bright made a speech, in the course of "which lie characterised the conduct of the Irish members as a-gross insult to the House and the Government, and stated that the latter would shortly apply a remedy for such obstruction as was being pursued. The debate is still proceeding. This morning at 10 o'clock, owing to the scandalous scenes which continued to occur in the House of Commons, the Speaker put a stop to the debate. Great disturbance thereupon ensued, and did not cease until the Irishmembers left the House in a body. There being still a quorum present, the Coercion Bill was then read a first time, and the second reading will be taken at noon to-day. ; THE S.S. NORFOLK. London, February 2. The steamship Norfolk left Plymouth yesterday, for Lyttelton.