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London, Feb. 7. Public meetings have been held in London and in several provincial towns, at which resolutions have been passed denouncing the Irish Coercion Bill now before Parliament. In addition to the complete cessation of outrages in Ireland there are now signs that the Irish tenants are giving way to the laridlords, and will resume the payment of rent for their holdings. In the House of Commons to-day, the Right Hon Grant Duff, Uuder Secretary for the Colonies, in reply to a question said that the Governor of the Gold Coast Colony bad determined to resist the Ashantee demands for the surrender of the fugitive chief, and was making every defensive preparation in caße of an attack. Mr Gladstone announced in the Houae today that the Irish Land Bill could take precedence of all other business after the Coercion Bill had been passed. Michael Davitt will be exempt from hard labor during to his imprisonment for the remainder of the term of bis sentence.. Berlin, Feb. 7. Mr Goschen, the English Ambassador to the Porte, is visiting this city while en route for Constantinople. He has had audiences of the Emperor and Prince Bismarck. Athens, Feb. 7. A more moderate feeling now prevails among all classes in Greece in regard to the frontier question, and there seems every probability that the Turko- Greek difficulty will receive a peaceful settlement.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XVI, Issue 34, 9 February 1881, Page 2
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