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[REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.] By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. >—•— * DEMONSTRATION OF UNEMPLOYED IN MANCHESTER. CHAMBERLAIN AND TREVELYAN AND GLADSTONE'S IRISH POLICY. CONSTRUCTION OF WAR VESSELS FOR THE BRITISH NAVY. GREAT RIOT AT LIEGE, IN BELGIUM, GENDARMES CHARGING THE MOB. RUSSIA GOVERNMENT and PRINCE ALEXANDER'S CLAIM. (Received March 19, 2.45 p.m.) London, March 18. A demonstration of the unemployed took place in Manchester to-day, which threatened at one time to prove of a very serious nature; as it was, some windows were broken ; but the prompt action of the uolice prevented any pillaging of shops or houses. (Received March 20,1 a.m.)
March -20. Messrs Chamberlain and Trevelyan still maintain their views regarding the placing of the Land Purchase funds in the hands of an Irish Parliament, and shew disposition to yield to Mr Gladstone's request for the withdrawal of their resignations. In the House of Commons last night, J. T. Hibbert, Under-Secretary to the Admiralty, in moving the estimates, announced that twenty armoured and twenty utiarmouted vessels, and fiftyfour torpedoes were in course of construction for the British navy. (Received March 20, 12.30 p.m.) Brussels, March 19. Serious rioting occurred at Liege, yesterday, on the occasion of a demonstration of Socialist agitators and unemployed labourers. A large number of windows were smashed, and shops sacked and pillaged of their contents. A large foice of gendarmes endeavoured to quell the outbreak, and charged the mob several times, eventual y cowing the rioters, and making over a hundred arrests. The amount of damage done cannot yet be estimated, but it is known to lie immense. St. Petersburg, March 19. The Bulgarian difficulty is not yet settled, as the Russian Government insist on Prince Alexander renouncing the claim put forward by him to life tenure of the governorship-of Eastern Roumelia. Madeira, March 19. The Kaikora, from Wellington, 22ud February, left to-day for Plymouth. The steamship Ruapebu left yesterday for New Zealand, via the Cape.
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Kumara Times, Issue 2930, 20 March 1886, Page 2
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