CONDENSED CABLEGRAMS.

Manawatu Herald, 29 April 1893, Page 2

CONDENSED CABLEGRAMS.

t_6Hd_ii. Sir William JE.ar_.ti_.} bhdhdti.ol 5 o. the Mcke _u_t-, delivered his Budget Speech on April 25th. He stated that the actual expenditure had amounted to £90,876;0e0, and the actual re._ip_ tb I__,us_ nid.e. "the estimated expehditure was __§_-,- -464,000, and the revenue j.89,8.0,---000. Jt -Wfts p^-oPd-ed ta substitute & shilling tax oh coutract notes for adhesive stamps on foreign and colonial securities. He said the National Debt had been reduced six and a half millions. It was impossible to touch the death duties or the question of graduated taxation, oWittg td the watt, of tltn.i A Chancellor preaching economy was like a voice Crying iti the wilderness; The natiori was rich and insisted on e_j)eti.e» -Pile ftaaii.es were soutid, and there was no gr.Ui.cl for disquiet. The incotrie tax was the least uncertain way of adding to the. revenue) arid the 1 tax ott plate Would hot disturb trade. Mr Balfour, addressing the meeting of Ulstermen, said the coming dissolution would be the death warrant of the Government, whom he represented as being in great fear of going to the polls again. The dovernnlent were hissed by the meeting. Three hundred amendments to the Home Rule Bill have been ai* ready tabled. The excitement in Belfast continues. The military prevented a collision between two large bodies ot Protestants and Catholics. Mr Labouchere has given notice of an amendment to the Home Bule Bill abolishing the Legislative Council in the Irish Legislature. The . Nationalists will propose that the limit of the Irish contribution to the Imperial exchequer be £1,250,000 sterling. Messrs Redmond and Labouchere have given notice of amendments excluding Irish members from seats in the Imperial Parliament at Westminster. Lord Salisbury addressing 1600 Irish delegates at the Hatfield f.te, declared that there should be no Home Rule for Ireland, br for part of it. Other Unionist leaders asserted that Great Britain would never desert those who wore opposed to Home Rule. The drought in England has extended over a period of 58 days, which is the longest on record. The Government is prepared to allow- the Irish members at Westminster to vote on all questions, recognising that it will be impossible to draw a distinction between Im perial and domestic questions. The leaders of the Unionist Party have decided to fight the Home Rule Bill when in committee, line by line.