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Oamaru Mail, Volume XXII, Issue 6792, 18 January 1897, Page 1

HOME AND FOREIGN NEWS.

(PER UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Received January 16, at 9,55 p.m. London, January 15. The Irish Parliamentary Party have decided that an amendment to the Address-in-Reply dealing with the question of Irish taxation shall be moved by the Hon. E. Blake, member for Longford South. Tho Lord Mayor, speaking at Kildare, hinted that the possible cry might be raised that Ireland was against the payment of any taxes. Received January IS, at 1.10 a.m. London, January 17. Mr John Morley, speaking at Dundee, stated that the revenue for 1595-96 showed that Ireland contributed onetwelfth instead of one-twentieth to the Imperial revenue. He was not in favor of a reduction of the Irish whisky duty below that imposed in England. There were other methods by which a readjustment of taxation was possible. He preferred to wait until Sir Michael HicksBeach had delivered his Budget speech before discussing the question further. He considered Mr Balfour's recent speech at Manchester had spread confusion. Received January 16, at 9.55 p.m. London, January 15. Mr Edmund Byrne, Q.C., Conservative member for Walthamstowe, succeeds Sir J. Chitty as one of the Judges of the Chancery Division. Paris. January 15. M. Meline, Premier, proposes to introduce a Bill into the Chamber of Deputies, dealing with the marking of imported frozen meat. St. Petersburg, January 15. In the chess match at Moscow between Lasker and Steinitz, the latter was defeated. Received January 17, at 5.16 p.m. London, January 16. A force of five hundred troops, with Maxim guns and artillery, will be despatched in February to occupy Benin, on the West Coast of Africa, and open up the interior of the country. Captains Boisragon and Locke, who have arrived at Brass, will be consulted as to the resources of the King of Benin. Mr R. D. Moor (Vice-Consul of the Niger Protectorate) is confident that a week's operations will destroy the power of the King of Benin. The ceremony of confirming Dr Mandell Creighton as Bishop of London was conducted yesterday at the Church of St. Mary-le-Bow, Cheapside. During the proceedings a scene was created by a layman rising from among the congregation and protesting against the confirmation on the ground that Bishop Creighton was a ritualist. Professor Silvanus Thompson, the eminent electrician, expresses the opinion that by the adoption of new methods it is possible to despatch seventy words per minute over a single Pacific cable at a small extra cost. Mr F. Wigram, member for the Rumford division of Essex, intends to resign his seat in the House of Commons. Madrid, January 16. The Government have adopted a scheme of reform for Cuba, which is intended to pave the way for autonomy without surrendering the Spanish imperial power in the Island. Netv York, January 16. The New York newspapers report that the Cuban insurgents have refused to recognise the scheme of autonomy proposed by Spain.