LAST NIGHT'S CABLEGRAMS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XVII, Issue 5205, 11 February 1892, Page 1

LAST NIGHT'S CABLEGRAMS.

(By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) HOME AND FOREIGN NEWS. (SPECIAL TO PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Received February 10, at S. 10 p.m.] London, February 0. Mr Redmond gave notice to-day to move for an amnesty to political prisoners. Mr Gladstone will return from the Continent on Saturday week. Lord Salisbury, replying to the criticism of Lord Kimberley, declared that England would never surrender Egypt to the supremacy of another Power or leave it to destruction by itself. He alleged that the Newfoundland dispute was due to the colonists themselves. The Address-in-Reply was agreed to in the House of Lords. Isolated cases of foot and mouth disease still exist in the outskirts of London. Wool is unchanged. Colonial stocks arc very depressed. The best friends of the colonies among financial authorities consider the situation daily grows graver, and expect there will be a serious weakening of the credit of the colonies unless public works are stopped. They insist that the colonies must borrow everything locally for at least a year. Received February 10, at 0 p.m.] London, February 0. The ceremony of opening Parliament was of an unusually sombre character, everybody appearing in deep black. Mr Lowther moved an amendment, to the address-ill-reply, urging the Government to terminate the treaties which prevent, the differential treatment of the colonies by England. He argued that if some change were not made the colonies would be tempted to act by themselves. Mr Howard Vincent seconded the amendment. Sir M. Hicks-Beach, in reply, said the Government was better able to take a broad view of the commercial relations of the Empire than any of the colonies. They would go a long way to secure a zollverein embracing England and her colonies, but such an amendment at the present juncture was injurious. When a favorable opportunity offered they would try and get the treaties revised, but the occasion was not opportune. The amendment was negatived without division. Sir W. V. llareouit said that the Opposition would support a genuine honest measure of local government for Ireland. The debate on the address-in-reply was adjourned. Sir W. J. Sendall lias been appointed Governor of Cyprus.