LONDON.
February 14.
The House of Commons decided in Committee that the Irish Coercion Bill shall be retrospective in its opsration, and shall give the Viceroy of Ireland power to make arrests for offences committed prior to the Ist of October of last year. Mr Parnell has been absent from the House of Commons for a week, and it is believed he is visiting Paris. The Ladies League in Ireland is daily extending its operations, and increasing the agitation in regard to the land question.
February 15
Telegrams are to hand containing a rumor that 500 Irish Americans have left tbe States for the Transvaal to join service with the Boers.
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3009, 16 February 1881, Page 3
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