ELECTION AHEAD.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 757, 4 March 1910, Page 5

ELECTION AHEAD.

THE VETO PROPOSALS. PIPE-LIGHTS FOR PEERS. MR. O'BRIEN PREDICTS A LIBERAL DRUBBING. By Telegraph—Press Association-Oopyrlizht. London, March 2. Unionist papers ,jeeringly ask what is to become of the Budget, and protest against, tho Government's Tefusal to adopt Mr. Austen Chamberlain's "suggestion to pass tho incomo tax resolutions forthwith. Speaking in the House of Commons, Mr. Austen •Chamberlain stated it may be May or June before last year's taxes aro collected. Mr. Lloyd-George, Chancellor of the Exchequer, replied that the chaos' was due to unprecedented action by the Lords. The Government scheme had to be considered as a whole; therefore it was impossible to introduce tho resolutions earlier. .The House of Commons has empowered the Treasury to extend its borrowing from March till the end of September, and tn transfer .£6,300,000 of tho sinking fund to the financial service of tho year. Three and a half million of this actually formed part of Mr. Lloyd-George's Budget. '• , UNOPPOSED BY-ELECTIONS: London, March 2. Mr. Maurice .Healy (younger brother of Mr. Tjm. Healy, Nationalist M.P. for North Louth) stood as an Independent Nationalist for North-East Cork, and was elected unopposed.

. [When Mr. Wm. O'Brien temporarily abandoned politics and resigned his seat for Cork City, the successful candidate at the consequent by-election was Mr. Maurice Healy, Independent Nationalist. Cork City has two seats, and at the recent general election Mr. Healv and the other sitting member, Mr. A. fiocho (Nationalist), stood for re-election, while Mr. Wm. O'Brien and two other candidates also stood. Cork chose its old pair, Mr. O'Brien and Mr. Roche, with Mr. Healy third. But Mr. O'Brien was also elected by North-east Cork, hence the present by-election, which provides Mr. Maurice Healy with an unopposed seat.] ■ Mr. E. J. Soares, who was recently appointed a junior Lord of the Treasury, was re-elected unopposed for Barnstaple division of Devonshire. [Mr. Ernest Joseph Soares is U years of age. He has represented the Barnstaple division of Devonshire since 1900. Ho was formerly a solicitor.in Manchester.] THE IRISH SPLIT. INDEPENDENTS RIDICULE THE , . REDMONDITES. . ELECTION "BEFORE MANY WEEKS." (Rec. March 8, 10.30 pan.) London, March 3. The newly-eleoted Independent Nationalist member for "North-east Cork, Mr. Maurice Healy, in a speech to his constituents, said that Mr. Redmond, Leader of the Nationalists; was armed with a cracked blunderbuss. He was ready to vote against the Government when every regular opposition would refrain from doing so, but he was careful in other circumstances about firing his cracked weapon. ' Mr. Win. O'Brien taunted Mr. Redmond with resting on an academical resolution which the Lords would light their pipes with. The Redmondites and the Radicals would then return to the electorates and would meet with a sounder drubbing than' before. Mr. Redmond, in acknowledging American contributions ,to the Nationalist party fund, prediots a general election beforo many weeks. LORDS' POLICY. TO PUT THEIR OWN HOUSE •IN ORDER. (Rec. March 3, 10.30 p.m;) London, Maroh 3. Unionist leaders in the House of Lords intend to introduce proposals regarding reform of; the House, in the first place by declaratory resolutions. SUPPLEMENTART ESTIMATES PASS. (Rec. March 3, 10.30 p.m.) > London, March 3. In the House of Commons the Supplementary. Estimates, whioh amount to •£659,100, were agreed to after a short discussion between Mr. A. H. Lee, Admiral Lord Charles Beresford, and Mr. M'Konna, First Lord of the Admiralty, BACK TO THE LAND. HOW TO XURB MEN PROM THE TOWNS. (Sec. MaTch 3, 10.30 p.m.) London, March 3. A deputation waited on Mr. John Burns, President of the Local Government Beard, and on Earl Carrington, President of the Board of Agriculture, on the subject of farm colonies. Tho deputation urged the selection of unemployed persons having an aptitudo for agricultural work,, the training of them, and, after a successful trial, the settling of them and their families for two years on small holdings connected with a labour colony. Mr. Burns gave a sympathetic reply. Dr. Paton, of Nottingham, the originator of the deputation, suggested that a portion of the Development Fund, to bo established under the Act passed by,tho Government last year, should bo applied to the establishment of a farm colony. • Earl Carrington considered it important that, if men having agricultural experience were drifting to tho towns, they should be enabled to return to the country.