THE HOME RULE BILL. [BY TELEGRAPH-COPYRIGHT.] [REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.]

Waikato Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2163, 20 May 1886, Page 2

THE HOME RULE BILL. [BY TELEGRAPH-COPYRIGHT.] [REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.]

Loxdok, May 18. The <jleb<ite on the Home Rule Bill wns leHiitned in the House of Commons last night. Sir Richard Cross snoko at some length in opposition to the Bill, which ho stated offered no purport of finality of legislation, nor of the establishment of pood government in Ireland. Mr Stannfield expresNed hinibolf warmly in defence of the measure, wjiiuli he declared would smooth the way for federation, and strengthen the union of the British Empire. A Prcs Asiociation menage says : — A petition, signed l>y 1015.000 Scotchmen, has been presented to the English Government, protesting against Home Rule for Ireland. The Government caucuses on the Irish question (says a Press Association niesbage) are using coercive mcasuies with their seceders. Londox, May 17. It is expected the debate on the Home ■Rule Bill will be sufficiently advanced to allow of the division being taken on Friday next. A dissolution of Parliament is generally regarded as inevitable.

A Pre«H Association message Rays : — Lord Salisbury, at a meetinsr of the Tory party last night,, advocated the immigration of «t million of tho Irish to Manitoba. ' He expre.Hses a conviction that a dissolution was imminent. The Liberal dissentients decline to vote for the Home Rule even as an abstract principal. The minimum majority against the measure is expected to be 41, and possibly it may amount to 100. .< Mr Chamberlain and Lord Hartington have been reconciled.