The liberal Conference.

Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 191, 12 February 1887, Page 5

The liberal Conference.

The Key York "Star's" London cablegram of tho 13th says : Tbo private contarenco in Iho interest of the Liberal reunion at Sir William Horcourt'e town houfco yestoidfiy was adjourned until to-day. BnrcouH'a friends cl&ira the prospect h are promising for a friondly understanding. It ie t-tated at the Reiorm. Club thai both fides show an inclination to accept tho resolutions of the Leeds conferences a basis of negotiation on these lines is almost cortain to bo the outcome. The resolutions accepted Gladstone as the Liberal loader and pledged support, to Gladstone's efforts to give a better govern^ rnent to lrclar-d without committing tho party to any particular form of native Irish Parliament or home rule, assertirg the belief that such effoita bhould be persevered wiMj. The other planks o f the platform wore tho reform of the land lawe, legislation dealing with tho extension of local eelf government and free education, amended rcgiftiation a^d reformed election and licence questions. The Nationalists claim that tho sonee of the conference was distinctly for homo rule firct, and this is the rock on which the present conference ia likely to split, unless the details are waived and the above general programme is adopted. A prominent Liberal member, repre?entiog one of the most important ronstituencieri in the country, stated that old Parliamentry hands confidently look iotwaid to 01.-id-'.toue's return to office goon after Easter, if not before.