IMPERIAL POLITICS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2377, 2 July 1892, Page 1

IMPERIAL POLITICS.

4’jftNnaN, June 35). Parliament l\as dissolved. The polling will take place in the boroughs from -Inly 7th till Bth. The writs are op August 4tl\. Mr GladstopOi ajmont recovered from the injury to liis eye. At a meeting of the Birmingham Unionists, presided over by Mr J. Chamberlain, a motion expressing sympathy with Mr Gladstone was carried. The Unionist Press grenorally coimpeapl the manifesto issped bv t\ G Mppnis of Httfl ©Bp.e,ohsyr the. outspoken tpnq with regard to' the social programme. Mr Baifour urges that the retention of the Irish members of the House of Copinions ip, " the event of aptopotny h,i4 n s griiptecl to 4ra|anpj wppjd be an anomaly apd a gross injustice to England and Scotland. The colonies would be logically entitled to representation in the Imperial Parliament, The Dissenting clergy of England reply in terms of approval of tl\e ÜBtpp ' dune 30. Messrs Akairs, Douglas, Lowe, Sir M. Hicks-Beach, and Baron de Worms, will be returned unopposed. Mr W. O’Brien states that he has been assured that Mr Gladstone’s Hoiuq Rule Bill will be better tluut the measure

brought forward in 1886 from the Na tionalist point of view.

The leading Nonconformist Ministers of England, replying to the manifesto issued by Ministers, consider their ideas exaggerated, if not absolutely groundless, in regard to the view taken as to the danger attaching to Home Rule being granted to Ireland.