THE GENERAL ELECTION AT HOME.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4156, 6 July 1892, Page 2

THE GENERAL ELECTION AT HOME.

Severe Faction Fights in Ireland.

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London, July 4. Mr W, O'Brien left Limerick secretly by a special train, in order to avoid the mob.

Severe faotion fights have taken place in Ballina, Dundalk, and Newry, and many persons have been injured.

The Times asserts that Mr Gladstone's view that the peace of Ireland rests on the hope of his return to power, would send an inmate of Bedlam into convulsions.

The Daily News, on the other hand, contends that the Edinburgh speech has burst the Ulster bubble

Sir John Lubbock insists that this is the last desperate struggle of Home Rulers conscious of coming defeat, The Archbishop of Galway is expelling the Parnellites, Sir J. E. Mowbray and Mr J. G. Talbot (Conservative) have been reelected unopposed for Oxford University ; Mr Baldwin (Conservative) for "Worcestershire West; Mr Broad (Liberal) for Derbyshire, Southern Division; Mr J. A, Campbell (Con» servative) for the Glasgow and Aberdeen Universities: Professor Jebb (Conservative) for Cambridge University ; the Hon. W. J?. D. rfmith ((Jonservative) for the Strand; the Marquis of Granby (Conservative) for Melton; and Mr D. Randell (Liberal) for Glamorganshire. A rail was displaced with a view to upset 800 supporters of Dr. O'Connor, M'Carthyite, near Kildare, and a serious accident was narrowly averted, So far the Tories have won twenty seats, the Liberals eight, and the Unionists five,