BRITISH POLITICS

Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1643, 9 January 1906, Page 3

BRITISH POLITICS

By telegraph, Press Ass’n, Copyright Loudon, Jan. 7, The total number of eleo'ors in Great Britain is 7,266,706. The Nationalists are dissatisfied at the attempts of Sir H 0. Bannermau to sub“tfffijnate and minimise his promisee, Mr Loyd George, speaking at Croydon, deolared that tho lato Government cn the eve of the election tricked tho country by signing permits for the introduction of sixto n thousanl Chinese on to the Rand, constituting an eDgagemont only to bo broken at great expense. Mr Gladstone, speaking at Leeds, said that tho mine owners might enforce compensation to the oxtrni of two or three m:lliocs. Mr Cburohil 1 , speaking at Manchester, said : When a respcnuble assembly meets in tbo Transvaal we must necessarily bo guided by its opinions respecting Chinese, but that is not a settled matter. It is premature to 3ay what we will do before the Assembly speaks. Mr John Morlsy told an unemployed deputation at Arbroath that tho suggestion that the Stats ought to provide work at standard rates of wages was an unsound and dangerous principle.

THE PREMIER’S SPEECH. By telegraph* Press 'Ass’n,. Copyright Received 9.51 p.m., JnD. 8. London, Jan. 8. Sir H. Campbell Binnermao’s address to his constituents declares that his predecessors bequeathed an absolutely apil 1 - 4ng accumulation of publio mischief and s“' codftlSJC" After four years of costly ex- - ■' po:imenlß>...the regular volunteers, they?Ss f f§S® s^B? 'hile still groping for true principles of army reform. Their fiscal policy wa3 only a fairy story, fraught with inoaloulabli mischief to the Empire. Sir H. Campbell Bjmnermm condemned the immoral, oppressive pokey oS-srotection. An empire unit’d on the baef&’Or food taxes would bo en empire with a disruptive foroe in its centre. Mr Balfour’s minor fiscal policy occupied-only a nominal plaoe in the oontest. Mr Chamberlain's lirger polioy must be foaght. Liberals advocated peace, economy, self government, oivil and religious liberty, sooial reforms, and substantial continuity of foreign polioy.

CHAMBERLAIN S CRITICISM,

By, telegraph, P*ess Ass’n, Copyright Kooeived 11.3 p.m., JaD. 8. London, Jan. 8. Mr Chamberlain, speaking at Birmingham, declared that freo imports were the enemy of tralo unionism and goncral commerce. Protection of labour was just bb muob oppose i to freo trade as protection of goods, “ I ought.” he said, « have the support of every trades unionist.” Tho Timos, commenting on the absence of disclosure of a policy in Sir H. Camp- *> bell Banoerman’s election address, states that ho is evidently determined to keep an absolutely free hand, Jin order to apply liboral principles in any direction and in such measure as expediency dictates.