NEWS BY CABLE

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2573, 15 April 1887, Page 2

NEWS BY CABLE

By EIKCTHIC TELEGRAPn.-COPYEiaHT : (Renter's Telegrams.) Hodart, April 14. < -Mr Bird, Colonial Treasurer in the -\m Ministry,-has been re-elected for Franklin by a large majority. , ''"'■ Melbourne,; April 14. Mr Gillies has intimated his oon ; currence in Sir Miiis Vogel's conten: t»n that colonial contributions to the English incomo . tax should be considered in connection with the question of Australasian contributions to defences, and has "telegraphed to 'Sir Graham Berry to co-operate with Sir Dillon Bell in bringing the matter bafore the Conference. . London, April 18.. ; ■ .Sir; Gefirge.-: Otto Trevelyan \ lias addressed; a letter to the papers,-) in which he expresses strong disapproval of certain clauses of the Irish Crimes Bill. The debate on the motion for th« I

second reading of the Irish • Crimes BilJ has been, resumed in the House of Commons. '

Lord George Hamilton, First Lord of the Admiralty, with a party of delegates to the Imperial Conference, has gone on a visit to Portsmouth to inspect the dockyards and warships' in course- of. construction. Sir Henry Holland, Secretary of State for the Colonies, will give'a ban'quet to the Conference delegates on the, 29th instant. H.R.fl. the Prince of Wales will be present..' '