REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.
BRITISH AND FOREIGN. London, April 26. The Home Secretary has had under consideration further affidavit forwarded by President Arthur in support of the alleged insanity of Dr, Lamson, the Wimbledon murderer. After full enquiry, Sir William Vernon Harcourt has decided that the appeals made on behalf of the prisoner cannot be entertained, and it has been definitely decided that the sentence of death shall be carried out on Friday next, 2Stb. A large number of royal and other distinguished persons have arrived at Windsor Castle, and are the guests of Her Majesty on the occasion of the marriagiof Prince Leopold, festivities in connection with which have commenced.
The Order of the Garter was, to-day, conferred upon the King of Holland by the Queen at Windsor. The Orient Steamship Company declared a dividend of 2| per cent, for the last half-year, and carries £28,000 to the reserve fund. In the House of Commons this afternoon, J. E. Redmond, Home ruler and member for New Ross, m ived for leave to introduce a bill for amending the Irish Land Act. The motion was opposed by Mr Gladstone, who promised that Government would, du.iig the present session, introduce a bill for dealing with the non-payment of arrears of rent in Ireland. Redmond agreed, after some further remarks, to accept the Premier’s assurance in a friendly spirit, and the debate was then adjourned.
A further examination of the meat brought from Melbourne by the Orient steamship Garonne has proved th it a large portion is in a l>a>l 'condition, owing to the carcases having been packed in an unfrozen state. Vienna, April 26. Intelligence is to hand that hostilities between the Austrian troops and (he Bosnian insurgeu s have now entirely cease-1, and that an amnesty has been granted the latter by the Austrian commander. Capetown, April 26. Telegrams are to hand from Pietermaritzburg, reporting tbe arrival there of 1000 Zulus, who have left thencountry to. appeal to the Governor of Natal in favor of the return of Oetewayo to Zululand,
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Kumara Times, Issue 1741, 29 April 1882, Page 2
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