IMPERIAL POLITICS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2499, 6 May 1893, Page 1

IMPERIAL POLITICS.

TifcNPw, Mw h)f Lord Mayor ItniU prohd'd ‘oyej: a meeting in tho city protesting agaj rst Home Rule. One thousand merchants, shipowners, banker j, and leading citizens marched in procession from tho Stock Exchange to Gir’dhall. f |'!jQ gajfd Hopio Bulp non, which marched from the Siq% Jjxcbango to Guildhall, was 20C3 strong. It met’with an ehtluisiastic reception, Crowds} of people thronged the streets throughout the line of march, raising cheer upon cheep. those whose spoke at the

meeting were Sir John Lubbock and Mr Chamberlain. A resolution was carried that the granting of Home Rule to Ireland would be injurious to the best interests of the Kiugdom. May 4.

The proceedings at the Guildhall meeting were chfacterised by remarkable enthusiasm. Copies of the Home Rule Bill were burned to ashes in the presence of the meeting. Sir E. Grey, Under-Secretaiy for Foreign Affairs, in reply to a question, said that, the Russian Government had promised to refrain from further operations in Pamir, and to despatch no more troops there, pending delimitation by the Commission. The Government hoped the question would be amicably settled. The Miners Eight Hours Bill has been read a second time in the House of Commons. A division was called for, and the voting was—279 for, and 201 against the motion. Mr Gladstone voted with the " ayes."