ENGLISH TELEGRAMS. PER JAVA CABLE. RE-ELECTION OF PRESIDENT GRANT.
The absence of Mr. Gladstone fi;om the Lord Mayor’s dinner is much commented upon, and has given rise to many snrmises. Mr. Coleridge said that if necessary moderation must be sacrificed in regarding the religious aspect of the Education question; he afterwards delivered a speech laudatory of the measures of the Government, and declared the idea of Home Rule was absurd and impracticable. Money is tightening. Discount, 7 per cent. Mr. Secretary Fish has tendered the resignation of his office to the Government of the United States of America, and will relinquish his post in March next. At the banquet given in Guildhall yesterday, Earl Granville did not touch upon the subject of home affairs. He referred, however at some length to the American claims, and said that the
verdict of the Geneva Tribunal of Arbitration affected the purse and not the honor of the country. He advised England to pay without; grumbling the amount of the award, and said he should bo ready to give a full explanation in regard to the subject on the opening of Parliament. A great demonstration of the advocates of Home rule in Ireland, and of Republicans, to demand the release of Fenian prisoners, was held yesterday in Hyde Park Gardens. Thirty thousand persons were present. There have been continuous rains all throughout the country. An influential meeting was held at the Mansion House yesterday, the Lord Mayor presiding. Resolutions were carried declaring the suppression of the East African slave trade an imperative duty to be unkertaken by England, and urging that speedy means be taken to attain that end.
Grant has been re-elected President of the United States by the Republican vote. A large majority everywhere, The election was decided yesterday. There was a majority of 35,000 in New Yoak, and 110,000 in Pennsylvania. France pays Prussia this week 200,000,000 instalment.
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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume 1, Issue 9, 30 November 1872, Page 2
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317ENGLISH TELEGRAMS. PER JAVA CABLE. RE-ELECTION OF PRESIDENT GRANT. Poverty Bay Standard, Volume 1, Issue 9, 30 November 1872, Page 2
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