“AGE” SPECIALS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1501, 4 May 1886, Page 3

“AGE” SPECIALS.

London, April 19. It is authoritatively slated that (he French Government have resolved not to send any further batches of recidivisites to New Caledonia for the present. The statement that it was their intention to shortly send 1000 convicts to New Caledonia is declared to be unfounded. April 20. The proposals of Mr Gladstone for the establishment of an Irish Parliament are viewed with strong disfavor tn the not them counties of Ireland, where much bitterness of feeling prevails in connection with the scheme. A movement has been started for the raising of a fund to be expended in furnishing the Loyalists or Protestant Irish with equipments of war, that they may be prepared for any eventuality. April 21. Mr Qladstoqe has written a letter to the Quebec Legislative Assembly, expressing thanks for the action of that chamber in passing a resolution approvng of lire Home Kq'e policy. Lord Tennyson jius written an ir'ingural ode to b* do'ivered at the opening of the Colonial and Indian Exhibition,

New* his b". n received of a hostile encounter betw-n the Greek and Turkish outpost* m fin fr.mt.ier of Thessaly. The Turks w. re repul feed. The Government of Greece have repudiated the action of the Grecian commanders, who are held to be responsible for the outbreak. April 23. Dr Moorebouse has been interviewed by a representative of the Pall Mall Gazette. In the course of the interview Dr Moorehouse spoke in eulogistic terms of the colony and people of Victoria. The Right Hon. Joseph Chamberlain, addressing his constituents at Birmingham last evening, stated that while be was opposed to the Irish Land Purchase scheme of the Government he would support a modified system of Horae Rule, which should provide that a certain proportion of Irishmen might continue to sit in the Imperial House of Commons, and that two Parliaments should be established in Ireland, one to represent the South and the other to ait in Ulster and represent the Protestant population. In connection with the Land Purchase schemes submitted to the Government by the House of Commons, it is provided that in cases where the Irish tenants of any estate refuse to take advantage of the facilities proposed to be given them for the purchasing of their farms, the State will resume the ownership.