HOME AND FOREIGN

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XIII, Issue 2506, 6 November 1891, Page 2

HOME AND FOREIGN

I fPER PKJESS ASSOOIATION.

BANK OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

London, November 4. At a meeting of the shareholders of the Bank of South Australia, it was resolved to limit the liability of note issue to £150,000 till the end of 1892, and after that date to £125,000.

THE TICHBORNE CASE.

Mr Jenkins, of Sydney, writes to the Earl of Zetland that she intends to bring Cress well, the lunatic, to England, being confident that he is Roger Tichborne.

IRISH AFFAIRS,

The report of the proceedings at the Boulogne conference between Messrs O'Brien, Dillon, and Parnell has been published. It shows that Parnell offered to retire from the leadership of the party ? provided Mr Gladstone gave a guarantee to accept his proposals with regard to the settlement of the land, and to transfer the control of the police from the Imperial authoi'itifts to an £ris.h Executive at the end of five years. It was arranged that the party should meet after the guaravitee had been obtained, and pass the formal resolution declaring Mr McCarthy's election to the leadership informal.. This having been ddne bofyi Messrs Parnell and McCarthy were to retire from the head of affairs, and Mr Dillon was to act as the Chairman of the party. Parnell afterwards quibbled over the details of the agreement, and it was apparent he was not sincere-in his desire to effect a reconciliation. London, November 5. Messrs John Redmond and Harrington declare that O'Brien's account of what took place at the Boulogne Conference is grossly untrue, arid that it was artfully given out with the deliberate intention of misleading the public. They state that Parnell's retirement was only to be temporary, and he was always to have the power of veto in connection witli Irish legislation. They challenge O'Brien to produce the documents relating to. the Conference, but it is alleged that the papers have .been burnt so that the scheme for misleading the people might be complete. liiofcing took phicc at a Convention o f Seceders at \yalerford. Two hundred persons were hurt, many of them seriously. Dilion, who was among those preseut, escapeJ without injury. Jtlealy is upde^ned by MvDennott's

attack on him, and says ho will still pursue the same policy.