AFFAIRS IN IRELAND. BY TELEGRAPH.-COPYRIGHT.] [BEUTER'S TELEGRAMS.] London, February 19

Waikato Times, Volume XX, Issue 1660, 24 February 1883, Page 2

AFFAIRS IN IRELAND. BY TELEGRAPH.-COPYRIGHT.] [BEUTER'S TELEGRAMS.] London, February 19

Ihe debate on the Address in Reply: to the* speech from the Throne, was^'con- ' tinued in the House of Commons to-day, when the amendment proposed by Mr Gorst, M.P. for Chatham, that no further coKcesliops should b> "made to^ lawless agitation in Ireland, jpisiufider consideration. -In the course^ of^ aJlongtliy. and animated debate the policy of the Government was violently attacked by MiOBrien and Mr O'Donuell, who declared that the outrages which had occurred in Ireland were the result, of. cq'erqion.- Vi ; ' Two arrests have'been<ma<3e of persons who are charged with complicity in the murder of a police constable at Loughrea, iv ISSI. A Press Association message, dated London, February 21, says: — Mrs Harrington, the wife of the Secretary of the Irish National League, who was arrested on a charge of conveying weapons to the assassins, has been discharged in consequence of James Carey, the informer, failing to identify her. It is understood that the person referred to by the informers in the Phoenix Park murder case 'as "No. 1" is known to the police, and that' he' will be arrested. It is feared that there is still a wider conspiracy than that which has been broken' up. . „ ' ,' ■ "