Proposed Reforms at Home
TbEVTEBS TEXKGRAMsI London. October 3. Lord Randolph Churchill, in addressing a Conservative meeting at Deptford last night, referred at some length to tbe position of. affairs ia Eastern Europe. He dwelt on the many efforts England had made to. assist nations in gaining liberty. He rejoiced tbat Austria had taken the lead in endeavoring to preserve the freedom and autonomy of the countries of the Balkan Peninsula. Some of the Great Powers were inclined to pc contentious ; others were anxious. *fOr the maintenance of peace. If ■ compelled to choose, England would sympathise with Bulgaria. England's, adhesion would probably serve toy avert war. Lord Randolph Churchill has promised to legislate in the direotion ot allotments for laborers, tithes and glebes, railway rates, cheap 'land transfer, popular local government in the United Kingdom, licensing reform, amending the land laws of Ireland, elementary education, and public economy. He favors the cloture proposals. He does not believe in wholesale evictions.
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Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 49, 5 October 1886, Page 2
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