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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1074, 16 May 1882, Page 2

The home ward Australian and New Zealand mails, via San Francisco, which left Auckland on the 28th March, were delivered iu London on the 7th May. Parliament meets on Thursday, the 18th instant, and the Hinemoa will probably leave the Manakau on the 16th, with the Auckland members. It has transpired that Sir Charles Dilke has been offered the Irish Secretaryship. He has, j however, declined the appointment, because he would be excluded from the Cabinet. The British Consul-General at New York ' has offered a reward forany information which | may lead to the detection of the assassins of the late Lord F. Cavendish an 1 Mr Burke. Everyone is talking (says the Home News) of the extraordinary vitality of Mi Gladstone. On Tuesday, 27th February, he went to Windsor to see the Queen. Her Majesty has used her personal influence to avert a conflict, there is little doubt, between the two Chambers of ! the Legislature. By half-past two he was back |in London. At three he addressed his sup- | porters in Downing-street. Shortly after four ' lie was at his place in the House of Commons answering questions; then came his first speech on the motion for postponing the orders of the day, followed by his encounter with Sir Stafford Northcutt*. After this he moved his resolution in a speech of rather more than an hour; he spent the whole evening in the House of Commons, and did not return homo till half-an-hour after midnight. Such is a day in the life of a Prime Minister, whose age id throe-score and twelve.