Home Politics.

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 4, 4 July 1895, Page 2

Home Politics.

(Per Press Association.) • London, July 3. Lord Eosebery, sneaking at the Eighty Club, rejoiced that the Liberals had regained their freedom and place without power, purgatory, or hell, He ridiculed large political programmes, and said it was better to proceed with one thing at a time. To his mind the electors ought to concentrate every effort for the annihilation of legislative, preponderance in the House of Lords. In the House of Commons Mr Camp-bell-Bannerman admitted that the Adju-tants-General reported the supply of ammunition was sufficient, though not ample. The Hon. Mr Chamberlain said the Government intended to remedy the deficiency, It has been officially announced that Mr Aretas Alters Douglas becomes Commissioner of Works and Public Buildings, and Mr Long President of .the Board of Agriculture, with seats in the Cabinet ; Mr Gerald Balfour Undersecretary for Ireland, the Duke of Norfolk PostmasterGeneral, Sir J. E. Gorst Vice-President of the Council of Education, Colonel Sir W. H. Walrond Patronage Secretary to the Treasury, Mr William G. Ellison Macartney Secretary to the Admiralty, Mr Austin Chamberlain Civil Lord of the Admiralty, Mr Jesse Collinga Under-Sec-retary for the Home Department, Lord Selbonrne Under-Secretary for the Colonies, Mr T. W. Rnssell Parliamentary Secretary ot the Local Government Board, Mr Jas. Powell Williams Financial Secretary to the War Office. The House of Lords has passed the second reading of thd Colonial Boundaries Bill, the purpose of which is to remove , doubts concerning small annexations by the Australian colonies and New Zealand. The Privy Council have ordered the judgment of the Japanese Court to be restored against the P. and O. Coy's Ravenna which came into collision with the Japanese warship Chishima. The decision of the Japanese Court was against the Company, but was reversed by the Superior Court at Shanghai.