POLITICS AT HOME.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XIII, Issue 4200, 24 August 1892, Page 2

POLITICS AT HOME.

Mr Gladstone Condemns the Triple Alliance.

[Per United Press Association,]

Londok, August 22, Mr Herbert Gardner baa been appointed Minister of Agriculture. A letter by Mr Gladstone has been published in the Italian newspapers, strongly condemning the Triple Alliance.

Mr Gladstone promises to bring on the one-man-one-vote early in the session.

Mr J. Morley was received at Newcastle with enthusiasm, fie said be adhered to the opinion that a universal Eight Hours System was premature, Messrs Burt and Davitt are supporting Mr Keir Hardie in his demands on behalf of Labour. They urge that if the Labour problems are left unsolved by legislation the example of tho me# in the United States will be followed, and the clasps may choose their own courso to adopt. Mr John Burns formally ibankß the Australian Trades Unions for the interest they have shown in the general election. Mr John Kedmond, M.P., Las proposed to the Party of .which lie is the head that a delegnto should be sent to Australia to collect funds on behalf of the evicted tenants in Ireland.

Mr Davitt, speaking at Newcastle, said that if the Labour Party ousted Mr Morley, the Irish Party would oppose Labour measures.

Society and the Tories are annoyed Jjecause a peerage was not conferred on Sir Algernon Borthwick, of the Mornijg Star, especially as honours were received by Captain G. 0. Armstrong, of the Globe, Mr John Jaffray of the Birmingham Post, and Mr' Lawson, oCtlie Daily Telegraph. The name of Sir A, Borthwick, who sat in tbe last Parliament as tbe representative of South Kensington, was included in tlio list of new peers originally intended to be submitted to Her Majesty, tho idea being to give tbe vacant seat to Mr 0. T. Ritchie, who was defeated for East Tower Hamlets, but the Kensington Tories refused to accept Mr Ritchie as their member,