Monday.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XIII, Issue 35, 25 December 1885, Page 11

Monday.

Mr. Gladstone announces that the article published in the Pall Mall Gazette is without foundation, denies the existence of any such sche.ne as ihat attributed to him by the writer of the article, aud disavows any intention of acting in the manner indicated therein. Mr. Gladstone takei tbe opportunity of stating that the announcement in the newspapers at present relative to the line of policy he is determined to sdopt are meie conjectures, as he has not yet made known his intention to anyone. The Times states that he has submitted to her Majesty the Queen a plan fur tbe le-establishment of an Irish Parliament, and further announces th-tt her Majesty has referred the scheme to her Ministers for approval. The Times says that the conscience of tbe country is deeply sho 7 ;ed at Mr. GladB. one's conversion, which might lead to a disruption of the Empire. The article urges the moderate Tories to reject tbe proposals. William Sheehan, who was arrested at Auckland charged with the murder of his mother, sister, and brother at Castletown-Roche, lias been convicted of the crime and sentenced to death. The work of delimiting the Russo-Afghan frontier has been brought to a standstill in consequence of the extremely divergent views of the representatives of England and Russa regarding the inclusion of Meruchak in the territory of the latter country. Moukhtar Pasba, who was appointed Turkish commissioner to Egypt with Sic Hen.y Drummond Wolff, has not yet left Constantinople, recent hostile encounters between Soudanese Arabs and British troops having rende ed the Anglo-Turkish convention a dead letter for the present.