CABLEGRAMS

Inangahua Times, Volume II, Issue II, 16 February 1880, Page 2

CABLEGRAMS

L „» : EEUTEKS* CABLEGRAMS. [PEB PEESS AGENCY.] London, February 13. F. FT. O'Donnel, member for Dunagahan in the House of Commons, moved the amendment oa> the Address, conyey* ing censure on the Government regarding Irish distress affairs, bufe it was rejected by a majority of 128 again&t 12. The Irish Distress Relief Bill, promised in Her Majesty's Speech, has passed tbe second reading. Obituary .-r-Sir William Baggie, mem* ber for Norfolk. Lord Lymington, Liberal candidate, has been dec ed for Bornshope, debating Garden. Hicks-Beach, replying to M'Arlhur, in the House of Commons, said that Queensland's management of the Torres Islands had been faultless. He also in« timated that the Government had not at present any intention to extend their jurisdiction to New Guinea. Beeiin, 12. The Reichstag has been opened. The Imperial Speech justified the increase made in the German army, on the ground that arrangements were going on amongst their neighbors which rendered the step necessary. But the speech also pointed out that the course of action being pursued implied no departure from the pacifietpol'cy laid down for the guidance of the German Empire. Stbney 14. The Exhibition first prize for wheat aoes to M'Gill, Otago; for oats, to din* ningham, Cbristchurch, and Meek, Oas maru ; for barley, Hurley, Nel on. The judges give the palm to Few Zealind malting barley and oats, and to Adelaide for whe^at. Andrpis, of JNe}son, *akes second urize for hops, and Strong, of In* vercargiil, third ; for coffee, Trent, of Christchurch ; second for pepper, Vl' DonaM and Miller, D<in<"lin ; first )o bicon, Blake, of Picton. Sheedy, of Dune.'in, second.