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Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 115, 5 April 1887, Page 2

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[By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright ] rBEUTEB's TELEGEAMsI London, ApriJ 2. In the House of Commons to-day, cnnsideratiwn of the motion tor the first rendinsj of the Irish Crimes Bill was ri*« surned, when an animated debate took place on Mr Parneli's counter-motion, That tht House go into to committee to consider the stale of Ireland. The discussion continued for some hours, and Mr Smith finally moved, under clotare rule, That the question be now put. The motion was adopted by 365 to 253 votes: Whereupon Mr Gladstone, with the whole of the Kndical section, and the i'arnellites, left the Hou<e m a body. The bill was then read a first time with* out opposition. It is stilted, in well informed quarters, that everything points to a friendly co-operation. An adrn nee in copuer is expected, as the stock on hand is rapidly decreasing. The prosecution of Mr Dillon and others has been abandoned. April 8. Lord Churchill addressed a meeting at South Paddineton last night, and strongly supported the Irish Crimes aud Lund Bills proposed by the Government. He spoke in justification of his resignation from the Ministry, and declared he would continue to insist upon economy 1 in the military and naval departments, | without however, impairing the efficiency | of the defences of the Empire. | At a banquet given by the members of the Federation League to the colonial delegates to the Imperial Conference, the Duke of Cambridge advocated the cementing of Home and colonial bonds, and declared that the security of the Empire depended upon Imperial Federation. Mr Deakin, Chief Secretary /of Victoria, stated that the Australian Governments were resolved to be masters in the Pacific. The death is announced of Baron Hindlip in his 77th yoar. Bbblik, April 2. Herr Antoine, member of the Reichstag for Metz, has been, by the order of the Government, expelled from Alsace, owing to Francophile. tendenees.