IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.
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(Received 6.30 p.m. July 22nd.) London, July 22.
In the House of Commons to-day, the Premier submitted the new financial clauses with respect to the Home Rule Bill. These clauses fix the contribution by the Irish legislature at -£2,300,000. Mr J. Chamberlain, in discussing the clauses, asserted that Ireland was now asked to face £550,000 less than at present, and £1,800,000 less than she ought to pay.
Mr J. Redmond characterised the new clauses as neither generous nor just.
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(Received 11.30 a.m., July 22nd.) London, July 21.
Sir Edward Grey, in the House of Commons, said that the French warships at Bangkok had not observed the treaty, though there was reason to believe it was not wilfully done. He declined to ask France to extend the time for the receipt of an answer to the ultimatum. Received 0.40 a.m„ July 24th.) July 23. In the House of Commons yesterday, Sir E, Gray, Parliamentary Under-Secre-tary of the Foreign Office, refused to explain the terms of the Russian demands respecting the Pamirs. He explained that negotiations were still proceeding, and that in a despatch the Czar had assured the Imperial Government that the reported advance of a Russian expedition into the Pamirs was without foundation.
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South Canterbury Times, Issue 7269, 24 July 1893, Page 1
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