LONDON.
August 11. In the House of Lords to-day the Right Hon. Earl Kimberley stated, in reply to a question, that the British Government had decided not to sever any portion of the Transvaal occupied by the Boers from the territory which had been assigned to the South African Republic by the Transvaal convention. August 12. In the House of Commons last night, the report on the amendments made by the House of Lords in the Irish Land Bill was again under consideration. A long and animated debate took place on further of amended clauses, several of which were rejected aa altered, while the amendments to others were agreed to. Some violent speeches were made in tbe course of the discussion by the Irish member!?, who accused the Government of acting with treachery, and with pandering to the wishes of the House of Lords. The debate lasted to four o'clock in tbe morning, when the consideration of amendments was finally concluded and the bill was returned to the House of Lords.
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3159, 13 August 1881, Page 3
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171LONDON. Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3159, 13 August 1881, Page 3
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