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Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 169, 11 September 1886, Page 4

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London, August 30th. — Mr Strangways, formerly Premier of South Australia, will embark for Adelaide in October next. A consignment of 250 cases of oranges sent from Australia arrived in good condition, and are selling at 10s per case, but itis suggested that itwould be advantageous if the fruit were wrapped in paper. Rev. G. Austin, rector of Whitby, in the North riding of Yorkshire, in response to a communication from the Committee of gentlemen appointed to select a successor to Dr. Moorhouse, has intimated Mb willingness to accept the vacant position. A company has been privately floated to work the Day Dawn Goldmine at Charter's Towers, in Queensland. Applications for shares represented £50,000 in excess of the capital required. The eerioua differences which have existed for some time between Sir John Pope Hennessey, Governor of Mauritius, and Mr" Clifford Lloyd, have engaged the attention of the Right Hon. Edward StanKope, and the matter will receive further consideration at his hand ; but in the meantime, ■ and pending a final decision, he has censured Sir Jtihn Pope Hennesey and removed Mr Lloyd to the Seychelles Islands, dependencies of Mauritius. Mr Gladstone has issued & pamphlet on the Homo Rule question, in which he justifies his action in having concealed his views from his colleagues in the Cabinet until the matter was ripe for public consideration. He admits, however, that it is necessary that the land purchase and Home Rule 4 questions should be dealt with separately. m A rumour is^ in circulation (the authenticity of which, however, is seriously dnubted) to the effect that Lord Randolph Churchill, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, intends to submit a proposal for the imposition of a duty on foreign hops — the colonial articles .to be etill admitted free.