Henry Richard urged for international arbitration tour success
The Government accepted Mons with unanimous support as Henry Richard undertakes a three month abroad mission to promote arbitration. The piece lauds his sacrifice and notes the linked war system harms industry and society while predicting growing momentum toward peaceful dispute resolution.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mons
Gladstone
Richard
House of Commons
Merthyr
Europe
Henry Richard
Land Transfer Bill Aims to Ease Real Estate Ownership
The Land Transfer Bill proposed by Lord Cairns seeks a three-register land office system to simplify title proof and transfers. It offers optional registration, aims to reduce conveyancing costs, and envisions eventual free trade in land, though settlement barriers and partial ownership limits remain obstacles.
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Cairns
Hugh Cairns
House of Commons
House of
Lord Selborne
Charles Hall
Lord Westbury
Lord Cairns
Lincoln’s-Inn- Fields
Lord Hatherley
England
Lock-out of farm-labourers sparks union support surge
In Essex, Suffolk, Norfolk, Lincolnshire, Cambridge shire, and Hampshire districts farmers lock out Labourers' Union members in a bid to starve the union funds. Across the kingdom large meetings denounce the move as oppression and call for local subscriptions to aid the union, while artisans, miners, and sympathisers rally to sustain the Labourers' Union against what is seen as a concerted cruelty by employers.
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Farmers’ Defence
Essex
Suffolk
Norfolk
Lincolnshire
Cambridgeshire
Hampshire
Leamington
Labourers’ Union
National Agricultural Labourers’ Union
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