Celegraphic News.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume V, Issue 456, 3 December 1880, Page 3

Celegraphic News.

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[Reuters Telegrams.]

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London, Dec. 1.

The Marquis of Salisbury addressed a large audience at Woodstock} Oxfordshire, last night; _rt tlie course of his speech his lordship referred at length to the address of Earl Glanville at Hanley on the previous day, and to the announced intentions of the Government in regard to IreLnd. Alluding to the proposed Laud Bill, he said the Tories would oppose any measure which would lead to confiscation of the property of the landlords, and he ridiculed the idea of creating a peasant proprietary in Ireland . Referring to the Earl oF Granville's announcement that Government would introduce a Bill dealing with tlie present disorder, and providing for the fuller happiness of Irishmen, his lordship strongly urged the necessity of first repressing the existing anarchy before taking steps to remedy the grievances of the people. Government has decided to abolish tho positions of Lord Chief Baron of Exchequer and Lord Chief Justice of Common Pleas.

.It has been arranged that the sculling match for the championship between Hanlan and Laycock shall take place on 17th January over the usual Thames course. Laycock has now raised the necessary stake of £500.

Constantinople, Dec. 1.

The Turkish Government has addressed a circular note to the foreign ambassadors to the Porte, containing proposals for mediatory action by the Great Powers towards bringing about an understanding for a settlement of the Greco-Turkish frontier question. .