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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXIX, Issue 11133, 20 February 1886, Page 2

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i THK BRITISH PARLIAMENT. i MR GLADSTONE MAKES A MINISTERIAL STATEMENT. ACCEPTS JESSE COLLINGS'S i SMALL ALLOTMENT SCHEME. BUDGET TO BE INTBODUCED ON 22hd MABOH. IRISH AFFAIRS TO BE DEALT WITH SUBSEQUENTLY. MEASURES FOB FUTURE GO* VEEJSTMBNT OF IRELAND. SELECT COMMITTEE FOR PABLIAMENTARY P.&OUEDURE. ADOPTS SALISBUBY'S POLICY IN GKEEK AFFAIRS. THE RECENT BIOTS. PROSPECTS OF WOMAN'S SUFFRAGE. (reutbr's telegrams.) , (by elbctbio telegraph -rcopyright.) b (deceived February 19, 1.30 p,m.) 1 London, February 18. 5 In the House of Commons to-day, Mr i Gladstone announced that the Govern-. > inenfc would accept the addrass-in -reply, with the amendment introduoed by Mr 1 Jesse Uollings, calling attention to the . question of small allotments for the > people, bub that they would refuse to agree to any further amendment. He then informed the House that the annual Budget wouid be brought down on the 22nd March, after whioh the Go* t vernment proposals for dealing with I Irish affairs would be introduced. These 5 would deal with the maintenance of I social order and with the land difficulty, t as also with the future method of ad* . ministering the Government of the .ountry, which would be done withov»/o j resorting to measures of a repressive v character. Touching the reform o' par^ ; liameutary procedure, Mr Gladstone , stated that the subject would b' 0 referred co a select committee. la conclusion, he announced that Her Majesty's Go** vernmenfc adhered to tb/j policy laid . down by Lord Salisbury in Greek i affairs. , (Received February 19, i 0,30 p.m.) 1 _ „ _ February 19. ' v S e , Housa of Commons last night the Address-in-Beply to the Queen's i speech was voted in its amended form, 1 atcer a short debate. ) Mr Ohilde:s., Home Seoretary and . übairman of Committees, who has ap- ' pointed an irquiry into the recent riots, stated that the inquiry had disclosed the necessity for reform in the polios administration of the metropolis. A bill providing for woman's suffrage was read a second time in the House of Commons yestesday.