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Manawatu Herald, 22 February 1896, Page 2

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Mr John Dillon has been elected chairman of the Irish Nationalist Party by a m^rity of 17 fotei. The Times favours the Amerioan scheme in regard to Yene-suels, provided that the settlers are pro tected on the basis of municipal and not international law. According to the last Blue Book pflued, the Consuls estimate that 25,000 Armenian a have been killed from first to last sinoe tht massacres | Ifctgao. I

During the debate on Mr Harrington's amendment to the Address-in-Reply in the House of Commons, the Hon. H. Plunkett, member for Dublin South, and Mr Lecky, one of the members for Dublin University, advocated mercy being shown to prisoners convicted of dynamite outrages in Ireland. Mr Baifour promised that in a year or two the sentenoen would be revifted. .The Paris correspondent of the Times pays the Senate is resisting the extreme Socialist measures of the Government, and desires to bring on a conflict. Mr Bexton, who was lately offered the Irish Leadership and declined it, has applied for the stewardship of ChilUrn Hundreds. Blue Books show that the Powers declined to coerce Turkey in regard to the oeißation of the Armenian maßsaeres* Russia and Austria declared that to do so Would cause an outbreak of War in Europe. Lord Salisbury declared that isolated coercion on the part of ont Power was impossible, Merino Wool is advancing, but the prospects of croasbreds are lesi reassuring, although they are unlikely to recede in price.