British and Fereign
[United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. ] LONDON, April 24. Received 25th, 10.10 p.m. Quotations for frozen n-uttoii and beef are unchanged. A few carcasses of lamb by the lonic were condemned. Many of the carcasses of mutton were spotted, some badly, while a few were condemned. Sir F. Dillon Bell will attend the Telegraph Conference at Paris and advocate the cheapening of cable tariff. Owing to the fog the wool sales have been postponed. In the House of Commons Mr Gladstone, in his speech on the Irish Land Purchase Bill, said the benefits to be derived from it were confined to the landlords and the tenants objected to the .State placing an embargo ou local funds in Ireland without their consent. The people of Ireland were evidently opposed to the measure, and State landlordism was a great economical danger. He thought Parliament should be precluded from pledging British credit for the purchase of Irish lands. In replying to Mr Gladstone Mr Goschen said the ingenious scheme propounded by Mr Parnell was not hostile to the Government's, but continued a dual ownership. He thought the two schemes might be tacked together if the British taxpayer were amply protected. Mr Gladstone, he said, had already established State landlordism in Ireland. Replying to a question Mr Goschon said the Mint was designing a new head for sovereigns. Sir James Fergusson, Undcr-Seeretary of Foreign Affairs, stated in the Hohw of Commons to-day that France possessed no treat 3' right to erect lobster factories in Newfoundland. Before the Colonisation Committee to-day Sir Saul Samuel said New .South Wales would not assent to or sanction any emigration scheme unless she had the selection and control of the emigrants. Replying to a pressing question he doubted if the colony would place the Imperial Government in the same position as a private individual in respect to selection of land and the settling of emigrants. Personally he was opposed to ] the colonising scheme. Sir Arthur Blyth, I Agent-General for South Australia., t&ougbi I
a company conducting a large emigration I scheme might succeed. I April 25. Received 25th, 7.35 p.m. In his evidence before the Colonising Committee to-day Mr Archer, Agent-Geueral for Queensland, said the only waste lands in that colony were those where Europeans, owing to the intense heat, found it impossiole to work. The Government of the colony favoured the reception of desirable immigrants, but he was not in a position to say whether the Government would allow of mortgaging the lands to secure advances made to immigrants. The colony was capable of receiving hundreds of thousands. WASHINGTON, April 25. Received 25th, 7.35 p.m. The Republicans in Congress recommend the Treasury to purchase four and a half million oza of silver monthly, payable in notes, and to be redeemed on demand.
British and Fereign
Southland Times, Issue 11440, 26 April 1890, Page 2
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