SPECIAL TO PRESS ASSOCIATION.

Southland Times, Issue 4495, 6 December 1882, Page 2

SPECIAL TO PRESS ASSOCIATION.

:LON.DON, Dec. 4. The Law Court's were opened to-day by Her Majesty the Queen, in State. A large number of notabilities and an immense concourse of people were present, and the proceedings passed off with great eclat. Mr J. M. Healey, M.P. for Wexford, one of the leaders of the Irish Nation \\ League, has been summoned to find securities for his good behaviour. Parliament has been prorogued to the ,15th of February. Lord : Chancellor ? Selbotne (Roundell Palmer) has been : Taise3:t6 an ' Earldom.'' .The' Khedive" has amnestied all minor oftendersi - • .": The United States Congress meets on Monday. THe President's message urges •the necessity for a revision of the tariff, and an increase in both army and navy. It also : supports the proposal to render more stable the tenure pfj officers in the p'ufcliO'Sei\y"ic,ea. ■ John Day, the well-known hojese Jtrajner,, b dead. - - Arabi Pasha a calm dignity' throughout his "trial, but the Europeans in Egypt are highly indignant at the farcical

XT 7; „'. ■ . ' ' '. proceedings; Tti& Natives rejoice greatly ' !at the jfesult. v The English press highly : eulogisbs Lord : Dufferin's tactics in the ;matter.; I : - '/rf . ■\; ■ ;/. ; // ■■• ;< ;M;(3jevy, in replying to a deputation of English = unionists, said he believed' the completion of a J tunnel, between France. ' and England would be productive of the happiest results, but the decision as to ...project should-. go. on •rested "wilb 1 England. ~ A BeceEre&'DiecT &', 1882, C B p.m. J^U'.JXvjL r f±\* Dec. 4. , .^^^Mi'jFre.derick .Napier_-8,r00m,.,»f ormerly ; ; a CaTitetbxiry" settler" '"and :, latterly the Colonial Secretary of Mauritius, ; has* been appointed Governor of Western Australia. He is the" husband of Lady ■ Barker i- - I ■'." ' Thej Seine' has jbverflowed- its banks' causing alarming -floods- in : the neighborhood of Paris.