Wanganui Chronicle. AND PATEA-RANGITIKEI ADVERTISER "NULLA DIES SINE LINEA." SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1886.

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

Wanganui Chronicle. AND PATEA-RANGITIKEI ADVERTISER "NULLA DIES SINE LINEA." SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1886.

Oxm cable news this morning ig particularly interesting. Taking up the business of the House of Commons i where it stood when the members of i the Salisbury Government tenders'' ' their resignations, Mr Grlads^" cepts Mr Je3se ColUajrfl 1 - ' ollQ a g" ments" amends^- _ o "small allots Kepl£ to **" cnt fo the Address in I*"* Queen's speech, but draws line at that point, and refuses to agree to any further amendments. The Government proposals for dealing with Irish affairs — whatever they may be — are staved off as long as possible, being made to follow after the delivery of the Budget, which will not be brought down until the 22nd March. The outline of the Irish policy may meau anything or nothing. It simply indicates that the proposals " will deal " with the maintenance of social order, and with the land difficulty, and also " with the future method of administering the government of the country, whioh could be done without resorting to measures of a repressive character." That Mr Gladstone's Government will make some attempt to deal with the several points of the Irish difficulty referred to is perfectly clear, seeaug that they gained office, and hold it, through the expectations the present Premier has aroused iv the minds of tho Parnellities. It would be useless to speculate as to the nature of M 1 * Gladstone's proposals, as it is more ? a,n likely that they havo not yet beeu formulated and that the whole question has yet to be approaohod by the Cabinet. The question of Parliamentary procedure is to be re- ! ferred to a select committee, and the policy of the previous Government in rogard to Greece ia to adhered tc. Touching the recent London riots, the blame for lax administration is laid at the doors of the police, and tho necessity of reform it is said has been made apparent. Woman's suffrage is evidently approaching within measurable distanoe, a bill providing for it having passed its second reading in tho Howie of Commons on Thursday laafc.