REUTER’S TELEGRAMS.

Kumara Times, Issue 1692, 2 March 1882, Page 2

REUTER’S TELEGRAMS.

BRITISH AND FOREIGN. London, February 27. The committee of inquiry into the working of the Irish Land Act, appointed by the House of Lords, consists of ten peers. Earl Cairns is chairman of the committee. The cargo of frozen meat per steamship Orient, consisting of mutton and lamb, has been sold at an average of s id per lb. The meat was of fair quality. February 28. The Homeward mails via Brindisi, which left Melbourne on the 13th January, were delivered yesterday. In the House of Commons this evening, after the postponement of the Orders of the day had been agreed to, Gladstone brought on the motion of which he gave notice on the 20th inst., and which takes the form of a message to the House of Lords, dissenting in terms already telegraphed, from its action in appointing a Select Committee to inquire into the working of the Irish land Act. The Premier made a lengthy speech in support of the motion, and on resuming his seat was followed hy E. Gibson, Q.C. (At-torney-General for Ireland in the Beaconsfield administration) who moved the “ previous question,” and addressed the House in opposition to Gladstone’s motion. The de'ato was then adjourned. In the House of Commons last night, a resolution was passed setting forth that Mr Davitt, one of the prominent members of the Land League, who was recently elected to represent Meath, is not eligible to sit in the House of Commons, he now being under arrest. It has transpired that the Select Committee appointed by the House of Lords to inquire into the working of the Irish Land Act, invited the Chief Secretary for Ireland to give evidence. The Cabinet has, however, refused to sanction such a course, and Mr Forster will decline to comply with the request of the committee. St. Petersburg, February 27. fhe trial of twenty prominent Nihilists has just concluded. Ten of the accused have been sentenced to death, and ten to penal servitude for life.

LATEST AUSTRALIAN NEWS. Adelaide, March 1. Messrs Hicks and Barker, insurance agents of this city, who were arrested on the 27th inst., on a charge of attempting to defraud the Australian Mutual Provident Society, were brought up at the Police Court to-day, charged with obtaining a worthless pdlicv and with impersonation; Tire prisoners were remanded. Melbourne, March 1. Per Merchant Shipping and Underwriter’s Association, London, February 28—The ship Woodville, bound to Port Chalmers from Liverpool, went ashore at Holyhead, North Wales. The captain and some' of the crew were drowned. The vessel has been got off, and she has been taken back to Liverpool for repairs.