Wednesday.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XII, Issue 13, 18 July 1884, Page 13

Wednesday.

Fourteen hundred persons have signed a petition to the Aucklanp Hospital Committee in favour of a homoeopathic ward. One of the medical staff has lodged a formal protest. About 45 oE the Christ church unemployed have accepted the Government terms, and gone to Rolleston and other places to plant xeservee. The son of James Keith, 18 months old, was accidentally drowned in the Mangatawbiri Creek, Auckland. In the House of Lords on Monday night Earl Granville, is reply to a question, stated he had made an urgent appeal to France's sense of tlw comity of nations with reference to th<j convict question, and it was impossible for the British Government to do more. Karl J^osebeiyhas withdrawn his motion on the question. Earl Granville and Lord Lyons are persisting in their friendly though ureent appeal tothe French sense of justice. The Times states that the silence of Earl Derby will strengthen the Australian feeling of his lack of sympathy with the interest of colonists, and that it is a very grave mistake to suppose it possible to prove or suppress the complaints against the recidivisite scheme. The proposed'exchange of the Falkland Islands for Mew Caledonia is considered improbable. Telegrams from Tasmania report that a severe earthquake was e3cperienced.jthere on Monday evening:. The shock was felt in Victoria. It has transpired that the Government will support Lerd Wemyss' motion for arriving at a compromise on the subject ot the Franchise Bill. Earl Granville stated in the House of Lords that the Government would probably proceed with the redistribution of seats in November next, provided the Bill was passed now. In the House of Commons on Monday Lord Edmund Fitzmaurice, Undersecretary for Foreign Affairs, announced that intelligence bad reached the Government that General Gordon was still at Khartoum, and holding his own against the besiegers. The garrison made constant sallies from the town with varying success.