IMPERIAL POLITICS

Temuka Leader, Issue 2469, 25 February 1893, Page 1

IMPERIAL POLITICS

London, Feb. 22

The Electoral Registration Bill ;. as introduced to-day in the House of Commons, it abolishes the rating qualification, and the residential period is to be three months.

The Freeman's Journal states that Home Rule, will he pressed through Committee in ."pi to of all obstacles. Tho excitement in Ulster is increasing. Th'.i B.uik of Ireland stock dropped £'.) j c..•;.■ onlay. During the last fortnight it has leaded £7. JJr .ivu-ne has issued a manifesto to the Or-iiigemeu and Loyalists in Ireland, claiming either the retention of the present union with Great Britain or freedom 10 direct iheir own course amongst tho free people of the world. It a'dds that they should resist to the death any atforce a bastard combination of the two. The Right Hon. J. W. Mello:-, M.P. for Sowerby, has been electod Chairman of Committee in the House of Commons. Feb. 23. In the House of Commons, the Railway Servants Eight Hours Bill has been read a second time. The result of the North Meath election was :—Mr Gibney (McCarthyite), 2C35 ; Mr Mahoney (Parnellit"?), 2370, The election for the Stockport Seat in the House of Commons resulted as follows :—Mr Whitely (Conservative), 52G4 ; Mr Hume (Home Ruler), 4799. It is proposed that a deputation comprising 50U Ulster men should wait on Mr Gladstone, protesting against Home Rule for Ireland.

A letter in the Morniug Post states that Mr Gladstone modelled the Home Rule Bill on the constitution of Victoria. O'Donovan Rossa expresses the opinion, that Mr Gladstone's Bill will not sy.tkiV the Irish.

Canada and the United States are responding freely to Mr Justin McCarthy's appeal for monetary assistance.

It is rumoured that the Irish Unionist organisations are purchasing arms.