IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

Otago Witness, Issue 1816, 10 September 1886, Page 9

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

(Reutee's Telegrams.) London, September 2. Hhe debate on the Address-in-Reply continues in the House of Commons. Mr Sexton (member for Belfast) to-day proposed an amendment requiring that exceptional measures should be taken by the Government for the maintenance of order in that city. Sir M, Hicks-Beach, Chief Secretary for Ireland, speaking to the motion, said he could make no statement as to the course that would be pursued regarding Ireland until the Government received the report of the commission under Sir Redvers Buller as to the actual state of affairs in that country.

London, September 3. In the House of Commons last night the debate on the Address-in- Reply was resumed. Mr Sexton's amendment requiring exceptional measures to be taken for the maintenance of order at Belfast was rejected by a large majority. The Address-in- Reply was then adopted. The Irish members and the Radical party obstructed further progress with business.

On the motion for granting precedence to Supply, Mr Parnell gave notice of an amendment opposing such precedence on the ground that the state of affairs in Ireland demanded the first attention of the House.

September 6. In the House of Commons to-day Mr Edward Stanhope, Secretary for the Colonies, in reply to a question, stated that he entertained strong hopes that a settlement of the New Hebrides question favourable to Australia would be arrived at with France at an early date.