TO-DAY’S NEWS.

Kaikoura Star, Volume VII, Issue 85, 21 October 1887, Page 2

TO-DAY’S NEWS.

LOIvDON, Oct. 18. Professor Jas Bryce M. P. for South Aberdeen, sneaking at that city, said that the constant pretexts made by France to delay the settlement of the New Hebrides .were merely.advanced to be-fool the Marquis of Salisbuy. He declared that strong measures were necessary to attain the evacuation of the group. He said that the appeals to the Government both inside and outside Parliament to take decisive action with regard to the New Hebrides were unavailing? and he was convinced' that unless the Government acted with astrong hand France would never surrender the Islands.

The unemployed agitation was renewed this morning when an attempt was made to hold a meeting in Trafalgar Square. The police, who had been mustered in strong force, prevented the proposed meeting being held, and in keeping the Square clear a great amount of scuffling took place. About 2 000 persons proceeded to Hyde Park, where several speeches were delivered, and afterwards made in the direction of Bayswater, but on the crowd reaching the gate a conflict ensued owing to the police barring its progress. The mob destroyed the iron hurdles and seats in the park and with weapons thus improvised attacked the police, injuring a number of constables. The,police ivorn to n nnnci«|o?.i »>. I rfiCDt and succeeded, ultimately, in dispersing the assemblage, several arrests being made. The Liberal Conference was opened to-day, at Nottingham. Mr Gladstone, on bis arrival in the city, received a tremendous ovation from the inhabitants. Speaking at the Conference Mr Gladstone vehemently denounced the conduct of the Government in the administration of Irish affairs, and said that “ incompetence ” was the only word applicable to it. He declared that- if the Government persisted in their rash folly in dealing with the present difficulty, the Government of that country would become impossible - A radical change of policy, he added, was necessary, which only an enfranchised nation could accomplish. Oct. 19. Lord Dunraven, speaking at Stockport said that Protection was a question of vital importance to Great Britain and the Colonies. Disrupture of the Empire would commence when the. Colonies were driven to conclude commercial treaties with Sovereign Powers.