REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.

Kumara Times, Issue 1349, 27 January 1881, Page 2

REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.

BRITISH AND FOREIGN; • London, January 24. In the House of Commons to-day the Bight Hon. W. E. Forster, Chief Secretary for Ireland, asked leave to introduce a Bill, empowering the Viceroy of Ireland to issue warrants for the arrest and detention of all persons suspeeted of; treason, and to take steps to restrict the sale and possession of arms in any district. January 25. . A Bill for the adoption of coercive measures in Ireland, was introduced by the Irish Secretary in the House of Commons to-day. The powers which it is proposed to give theJViceroy are to issue warrants for the arrest and detention of suspected persons guilty of treasonable conduct, and will hold good till October, 18,8.2.; J)r. jLyons, member for publin, has. given notice of an amendment on' the measure, requiring the Government to Cairy out reforms in Irelan'd before pursuing a policy of coercion. In the course of his speech made in the House to-day, Sir Stafford Northcote, 'referring to the remarks made by the Secretary of Ireland in introducing his! Bill, said that Forster's facts vfereiiadly" convincing of the necesiityvforimmediate stringent, to;jrela^ttL#he trial of ;the IjeSguers at Dublin is still 'proceeding. Judge Fitzgerald finished,, his summing up The whole-tenor is generally admitted to have been strongly hostile to the 'accused Leaguers; : ; Capetown, January 24. News comes to hand from Natal that the Governor,, Sir George Col ley, has organised a; force of one thousand strong to operate against the Boers, and has commenced his advance from Newcastle into the Transvaal. —= ■»..-. ■ • LATEST AUSTRALIAN NEWS. Melbourne, January 26. Arrived— P. W. Company's steamship Rx)hUla y \ with the inward Suez mail.