BRITISH POLITICS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1448, 8 May 1905, Page 2

BRITISH POLITICS.

SPEECHES BY CHAMBERLAIN AND BALFOUR. By Telegraph—Press Assooiation—Copyright Received 4.82 p.m., May 7. London, May 6,

Mr Chamberlain, speaking at Birmingham, confessed that the Government’s greatest embarrassment spraDg from the education policy. Doubtless amendments WBre desirable, but he warned Radicals and Nonconformists that they would be unable to deal therewith while dependent on the Nationalists. Our treatments of the Boers had been more liberal than the world had ever seen. BLe asked whether we received reasonable recognition therefor. He wss anxious lest they had done too much; lest they had given the Boers on opportunity to recover by political agitation what they had lost by the war. Mr Balfour, speaking at the Primrose League, bitterly commented on the Opposition’s flood of misrepresention on the Chinese labor question, and their quernlous disappointment owing to the fruits of office being still withheld. One effeot of the approach of a general election was the conspicuous alteration of radical tactics tol wards the Alien?, Agricultural, and Education Aots. He declared that the Education and Licensing Acts embodied principles of reform whereon the country would never go back. Radicals refused to explain their Irishpolioy. Their advent would give littlo comfort to colonists,who took the British Empire seriously. Received 5.25 p.m., May 7. London, May 7. The liquor traffio local vote in Sootland was negatived in the House of Commons by 142 to 109.