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New Zealand Mail, Issue 839, 30 March 1888, Page 25

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London, March 22. Mr J. Powell Williams, M.P., for Birmingham, moved an amendment in the House of Commons to the effect that all debts owing by tenants in Ireland should be dealt with on the same basis as it was proposed arrears of rent due to the landlords. The amendment was carried by 32S to 213.

Mr Parnell’s Irish Land Bilj has been rejected on the motion for second reading. McDonald, of South Australian ruby mining celebrity, will form a company with the object of thoroughly exploring central Australia for rubies and other precious stones. It is re ported that the capital of the company will be L 400.000. The Marquis of Gorrnby, a Tory, has been returned unopposed for Melton.

Lord Hartington, speaking at Car. lisle, said chat the Local Government Extension Bill, introduced by Mr Bitchie, was the largest and most liberal measure ever proposed in the House of Commons.

The Conservative press generally condemns Mr Bitchie’s Local Government Extension Bill.

The latest betting on the University boat race is 3 to 1 on Cambridge (tkn). The Bockwell Silver Mine Company of Australia is registered with a capital of L 175,000. The OporLo Theatre was entirely destroyed by fire last night, and about 80 'persons, chiefly occupying the gallery of the theatre, perished in the flames.

The Orient Company have made an offer to Mr Baikes, PostmasterGeneral, to carry parcels at twopence. This will mean n sixpenny rate to the public. Erance will display a large number of educational exhibits at the Melbourne Exhibition.

The Marquis of Londonderry, LordLieutenant of Ireland, has been invested with the Order of the Garter. Arrived, s.s. Eifeshire, from Port Chalmers, January 26. The weekly returns of the Bank of England published to-day show the reserve in notes and bullion to be £16,600,006, being as increase of £IOO,OOO on last week. The proportion of reserve to liabilities is 45 per cent. Chilian copper is quoted at £BO ss.

The quantity of wheat and flour afloat for the United Kingdom is 1,930,000 quarters, and for the Continent, 220,000 quarters. Her Majesty the Queen left London to-day for Elorence. Mr Joseph Chamberlain has declined all offers of recognition in the shape of a title for his services in connection with the settlement of the Fisheries dispute between Canada and the Hnited States.

The Orizaba’s frozen meat is selling at 3f d. The Eifeehire’s frozen mutton has arrived in splendid condition. The shipment of butter from Port Chalmers, her last port of call, has arm •d in a perfectly sound condition. Charles Hern, the landscape painter of Sydney, has been appointed instructor in watercolor painting and sketching from nature to the daughters of the Prince of Wales.

Forty thousand bales are forward for the next wool sales. Antwerp stocks are 10,000 hales below last yeai-’s stocks. Business in London is extremely quiet. Wool steamers must arrive off the British coast not later than the Ist September to ensure, the inclusion of their cargoes in the September series.

Colonial stocks show a slight reaction.

The American visible supply of wheat is estimated at 36,250,000 bushels.

London, March 23.

Lord Onslow, late Political Secretary of the Colonial Office, has introduced a Bill entitled • the Shipping Life Saving Bill. The measure is drafted on the lines approved by the Colonial Conference, and has been read a second time.

Two hundred and fifty tons of Mawddach (Wales) quartz have been crushed, and yielded 400 oz of gold. The Conversion Bill has passed through all its stages in the House of Commons, and has been introduced into the House of Lords.

A deputation representing shipowners waited on Sir Michael HicksBeach, President of the Board of T?a*cle ? protesting against the rules of

the Board of Trade not being applied to foreign vessels shipping passengers in England. In repiy, Sir Michael said he could not interfere in the matter.

Mr Stanhope, Secretary of State for War, speaking at Worthing, said the Government did not intend to legislate on the Irish Land question until a future session.

London, March 23

Arrived—Ship Opavva, from Napier (December 30) ; ship Otalci, from Lyttelton (December 14). London, March 24.

The Government have agreed to a thorough revision of the pension list, and have accepted the suggestions contained in Mr Bradlaugb’s motion dealing with the subject. A committee of inquiry will be appointed to investigate the whole question. Orb aud Gospel Oak brands are steady. Last quotations, 16s lOd, are unchanged. The prospectus of the A ustralian Mortgage and Finance Agency Company has been issued, the capital being fixed at a quarter of a million. Three huudred and eighty thousand bales of wool have arrived to date. The market is dull. London, March 25.

Mr J. A. Balfour, speaking at Stalybridge, said the Irish policy of the Government was bearing most excellent fruit in Ireland, which was being gradually rolieved of a heavy yoke. London, March 23.

Mr A. J. Balfour, in his speech at Staly bridge, said Ireland would shortly be relieved from the yoke of an irresponsible association which commanded almost an unlimited power of punishment by boycotting, and was acting in opposition to the laws of the State without any sense of morality.

March 24

Sir W. C. Sargeant, Crown Agent for the Colonies, retires on a pension. Consols, New Zealand 5 per cents, 106. Inscribed, 103£. Wheat quiet. Australian, ex warehouse, 34s 9d ; New Zealand, unchanged. For cargoes of new crops sellers ask 33s 3d. Flour, 21s 6d to 255.

Tallow—Mutton, 26s 3d ; beef, 24s 3d. There is an active demand for rabbit skins.

New Zealand hemp, £2B 15s to £29.

Pig iron, 43s 3d. Sugar firm. German, 14s 9d ; Java, 15s 9d.

London, March 26,

The wheat market is slack, and prices remain unchanged. The cargo by the Lalsette has been sold at 32s 6d.

Sir Daniel Cooper, Agent-General for New South Wales, states that he is unable to invite the English brigades to compete at the Sydney firemen’s carnival, unless he receives authority from his Government.

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company (Limited) have received the following cable message from their London office, dated 21st inst:—“ New Zealand hemp—Market weak ; medium quality is worth L2B 10s per ton.’’ Dublin, March 24.

The police prevented Wm. O’Brien, M.P. for Cork, from addressing a meeting at Youghal, which had been proclaimed. There was serious rioting, and Captain Plunket, the magistrate, was brutally assaulted. Before the crowd dispersed subsequently, Mr O’Brien addressed a few of- his supporters in Canon Kellar’s stable.

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London, March 20,

Under Mr Kitchie's Bill the plan of government for the City of London is as yet incomplete. The second reading of the measure is fixed for 12th April. In the House of Lords the Marquis of Salisbury approved the system of life peers, but deprecated the abolition of the hereditary principle in the Upper#House. The Conversion Bill has been passed through committee.

March 21.

The Prince of Wales,, from the surroundings,, is ..convinced that the Emperor Frederick’s malady must prove fatal.

Her Majesty the Queen has received Baron Youlve, the Special Envoy of the Emperor Frederick. London, March 21.

Lieutenant-Colonel Coltlogan, who took a prominent part in the Soudan in 1883, is now living in a distressed condition in London, and is seeking employment as a prison warder. France and Germany each reqaire

ftn additional 6000 feet, of space at the Melbourne Exhibition.

The Banque Theatre, which was burnt at Oporto, was crowded at the time of the occurrence.

March 22,

In the House of Commons, Mr Parnell moved the second reading of his Irish Land Act Amendment Bill. Tlfle Bill extends the power of the Courts in the matters of reducing arrears of rent and postponing evictions. Mr Chamberlain characterised the Bill as being only another phase of the Plan of Campaign. The motion was negatived by a majority of 85. The Temperance party object to the clause in the Local Government Bill, which proposes to grant compensation for the refusal of licenses. The publican section strongly oppose the proposal to increase the license fee.

London, March 23.

Very severe floods have occurred in Hungary, and great loss to property has been occasioned. Several villages have been destroyed. The cemeteries were scoured by the rushing water, and coffins are scattered over the country. In many instances the coffins were smashed to pieces, and the remains of those buried strewn over the ground. Great distress prevails, and steps are being taken to collect funds in aid of the sufferers.

The Committee of the Vesleyan Conference have resolved in favor of the union of delegates from the Primitive Methodist, liible Christian Metho hodist, Free Methodist, and New Methodist Churches in one affiliated conference.

London, March 24.

In the House of Commons last night Mr Harrington, M.P., asked the Government it’ it was not possible to devise some means whereby a stop might be put to the practice of selling imported meat as English. In reply, Lord Onslow, Political Secretary to the Board of Trade, suggested that the vendors should be prosecuted by the people to whom they made the false representation. Mr Brallaugh’s motion, affirming the expediency of at once determining hereditary pensions (always having due regard to the just claims of present recipients), and the desirableness of thoroughly revising the system of granting pensions, has been agreed to by the House of Commons. Messrs Wingate and Birrell, of Glasgow, have suspended payment. Mr Goschen’s Conversion of Stock Bill has been passed by the House of Lords.

Messrs Landale and Hawthron-Bell, Australians, rowed fourth and sixth respectively in the Cambridge boat. A meeting which Mr William O’Brien intended to address to-day at Xonghal, has been proclaimed. In a speech at Stalybridge, Mr Balfour, Chief Secretary for Ireland, said the charges brought against hie administration in Ireland were ridiculous and grotesque falsehoods. Mr Balfour declared that Mr- Gladstone’s alliance with Mr Parnell was an evil augury of the political future, and was merely sought Dy Mr Gladstone in order to purchase S 4 unstable Irish votes. The Parnellites, even though they were assisted by Mr Gladstone, would never succeed, unless the people were entirely ignorant of Irish affairs. Dublin, March 24.

Mr O’Brien had commenced to deliver his speech at Voughal when the Scottish liifles with fixed bayonets and the police with batons charged the mob and dispersed the meeting. Several persons were seriously wounded.

London, March 24. Silver shares still show a downward tendency. The Ageuts-General who attended the Tariff Conference at Brussels have returned to London. They express themselves much gratified at the flattering position accorded the colonies at the Conference, and are confident that much benefit will accrue to trade and commerce from the labors of the Conference. Sir F. it Bell, Agent-General for New Zealand, conducted the debates on behalf of the colonies.

London, March 26

H.E.H. the Prince of Wales attended the ceremony at Exeter Hall in memory of the late Emperor William of Germany. Three thousand Germans were present. Professor Max Miiller delivered the funeral oration.

Sir Graham Berry has reminded Lord Knutsford, the Secretary of State for the Colonies, that the French Government have not replied to the request that the deportation of recidivistea to New Caledonia should be stopped, and be urges that the Impej

rial Government should make further efforts iu this direction.