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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2546, 11 March 1887, Page 2

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PRESS ASSOCIATION,), : • Auckland, March 9. Arrived, 3.30 p.m. R.M.S. Mariposa. She left San Francisco on February 18, and had fine weather during the passage. Her steaming time was 17 days, 22 hours 30 minutes.

GENERAL SUMMARY.

European dates up to February 14. v An amendment to the Queen's n Speech, offered by Mr Esselmont tl (Liberal) in favor of an inquiry into n the conditions of the farm laborers of v Scotland, was rejected on February 14' d by a vote of 98 to 96. li Sir Charles Dilke has been left a for- v tune of nearly £200,000 by a distant, e relative. b Sir W. Vernon Harcourt invited Mr: v Gladstone to meot Lord Havtingtonand a Lord R. Oburchlll at dinner at; hia ; v house on the sth. Lord Harbington t and Mr Gladstone sent excuses. The invitation caused a slight sensation. The Times of February 2 published- i a letter signed by 13 passengers of the 1 steamship Umbria, protesting against, < making gambling hells, out of tho f amoking/ooma of Atlantic liners. The, ; ; writers say that tho Umbria • was a i resort of decoys of the unwary, One i youth lost all tho money he had, and | in despair attempted to jump over- | board. ,' "'• .-•• -1 Lord Colin Campbell's library was : Bold by auction, in'Edinborough, the : books being mainly '• Scotch. The pro ' ceeds will not go far towards paying the cost of his recent suite. > The bill of : costs handed in amounts to £13,500; : and this, unless paid, will land Sir Colin in bankruptcy. . The Army Estimates of the British Government this year wilN include 1 fundß for the new repeating rifle, the defence of Home ports, and tho equipment of submarine mining corps" for the Clyde, Meraey, Tyne, Tay, and' Severn rivers, and Belfast Bay. The War aud Navy Department will thus be enabled to make.a concerted defence incase of a sudden attack on any : of the above ports, On January 31st Baron'Denman moved in the House of Lords the . second reading ot the Woman's Suffrage Bill. On the motion of. the ; Marquis of Salisbury, Baron Denman's motion was rejected without division. Acting upon his physician's advice, [ Mr Parnell will go abroad to recruit his health. He is said s to be suffer- , ing from pulmonary disease, and to i be dangerously iIL, In case of his r retirement, Mr T. M. Jffealey is spoken of as his successor, » IRISH AFFAIRS. r Lord Dunsandel agreed on January • to reduce his rents 25, per cent, and to J reinstate evicted tenants, There was ' great rejoicing among Irish tenants over this victory. e Mr T. M. Healey, who was dej feated during the recent election by Mr e Thomas Lee, who was the only candia dale for the South Division of Lortclon'dbuderryCounty, was elected unopposed e to fill a vacancy in the North Division s of Longford County, caused by the 8 decision of Justice McCarthy to occupy J aseat belonging to Londonderry-city, , to which be was elected as' well as to l ( the seat belonging to North Longford, e At Killarney 100 starving laborers, )- headed by a priest, appeared before the " Board of Guardians and prayed for | B work ov relief. The Board gave the applicants a hearty meal, abd agreed \a to apply to the Government for assistte ance,