IMPERIAL POLITICS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 4579, 27 February 1893, Page 4

IMPERIAL POLITICS.

The Anti- Home Bule Agitation.

TSpeciali to Fbbbs Association.] LONDON, Fsb. 24. Mr Hogan, a Melbourne journalist, lias been returned unopposed for MidTipperary. The Marquis of Bipon refuses to interfere in the Queensland separation dispute pending the general election. The result of the Cirencester election was :— Mr W. L. Lawson, Home Ruler, 4687 ; Colonel Chester Master, Conservative, 4445 i Fms. 25. The comments of the Conservative ♦Press generally are averse to the appointment oE the Hon E. W. Duff as Governor of New South Wales. The St James' Gazette states that the Government failed ta get a Liberal Peer, and way not patriotic enough to ; appoint a r Conservative ; therefore it perpetrated a job. The County Down Constitutional Association has decided to send several thousand Ulster men to hold a meeting in Trafalgar square, as a protest against the passing of the Home Eule Bill. The election f for Gateshead, the vacancy for which was caused by the flitting member, the Hon Walter W. James (Liberal) taking his seat in ,the House of Lords on the death of JhiB father, Ldrd Northbourne, resulted in the return of Mr Allan, the Home Eule candidate, by a majority of 868. The election for Horsham, caused by the death of Sir W. Barttelot, resulted as follows : — Mr Johnstone (Conservative) 4150, Mr E. G. Wilberforco (Liberal) 2666. In reply to a , resolution moved by Sir Eichard Temple, M.P. for Kingston, Sir W. V. Harcourt, Chancellor of the Exchequer, stated that he was in favour of a National Pension scheme for school teachers, though the amount would represent a capitalised sum of £25,000,000. The agitation against Home Eule is, increasing in intensity in portions of Ireland. The Unionist Alliance and other Irish Societies are preparing for a campaign on the lines of that of 1886. The apprehension in commercial and financial circles is not diminished, and the security of mortgages and land charges is disturbed. Viscount "Wolseley, speaking in Dublin, stated that the north had his sympathy, since they were fighting for the Union, which must be maintained at all hazards.