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Manawatu Herald, 18 July 1893, Page 2

London.

Mr Alexander Young has been appointed official nceiver for the Loan and Mercantile Agency Company.

Under great pressure all the party, including Mr Deasy, who has just applied for the Chiltern Hundreds, voted with Mr Gladstone for the closure. Th 6 exceptions were —Mr Bolton, Mf Wallace, .Dr Clark, Mr Atherley Jones, and Mr Ramsborne. Two others abstained from voting at all. There was much excitement, and several acrimonious encounters occurred between Messrs Balfonr, Chamberlain, Gladstone and Sir W. V. Harcourt. The resolution excluded all debate upon the clauses up to clause 26. Almost eve.ry Unionist was present ; but when the Parnellites insisted upon dividing on clause 10, respecting the financial arrangements, the bulk of them withdrew, giving the Government a majority of 309. Ten divisions in all were taken. The Unionist press declare that the Government has indelibly disgraced itself by selling the interests of Great Britain for party advantages. The Premier's motion to omit subsections 3 and 4 of clause 9, thus preserving the retention of Irish members at Westminster, was carried by 325 to 298, and, upon a further division, the amended clause was passed by a majority of 29. Clauses 10, 11, 12, 13, 17, 20, and 21. were negatived ; 14, 15 and 16 postponed ; 18, 19, and 22 to 26, carried by majorities of^33 to 35. These clauses treat of finance, post and telegraph appeals, the office of Lord Lieutenant-, and Crown lands.

In the House of Commons, on the Home Rule Bill, Sir W. Harcourt, Chancellor of the Exchequer, staled that it had been arranged that Ireland's contribution should be £1,---800,000.

Mr Sexton said this implied that the military and police expenditure would be increased if the Home Rule Bill was rejected.

Mr Goschen commented upon the significance of the admission. Sir George Bussell declared that if the Bill passed there would be no surplus, and Ulster would be refused a farthing in assistance. Mr Sexton's remark, he considered, indicated that the Irish leaders were sitting on the safety valve of crime.