SUEZ MAIL NEWS.
London, Oct. 22. Mr Fawcett said recently it was better that the Liberal party should remain out of office till their hair was grey, rather than make any compromise with tbe Home Rulers leading to the dismemberment of the Empire. Lord Lyttelton at a Liberal banquet said if the Liberals came into power the Afghan policy would be reversed, Cyprus given up, and the national finance placed on a sound basis. Rosenburg, the publisher of Town Talk, has been sentenced to eighteen montbs imprisonment for libelling Mrs CornwallisWest. There is schism among the Home Rulers. Mr Parnell's convention scheme in widening. The defeat of the Russians in Cential Asia by 15,000 Turkomans and the suspension of hostilites for the winter is confirmed. Information has been received from New York that if Sir Arthur Gordon hadannexed Samoa an United States warship would have protested against taking Pago Pago, the coaling station, and if necessary would have protected it.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIV, Issue 283, 10 December 1879, Page 2
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