BRITISH POLITICS

Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 164, 10 January 1906, Page 2

BRITISH POLITICS

By. .telegraph Prose Asa’Hf .Copyright London, Jan. 8. Sir H. Campbell Bmncrmau’s addresß does not inoDtion Home Rulo. Sir Charles Dilko’s election address consiatH of a single sentence : “ I solioit with confidence a renewal of your trust.” Mr G. IT. Chubb, President of the Nonconformists’ Unicnist Association, urges eloctots to volo against overy Radioal unless he declares Home Rule to be as dead as a door nail. Mr Allen Slonoham, Unionist candidate for Bostworth division of Leicester, previously connected with mining in WestraHe, has received a cablegram conveying good wishes from Mr Deakin and some of the Westralian Ministers, foe strongly advocating preference.

GOVERNMENT PLEDGED TO HOME RULE. By telegraph, Presa Aes’n, Copyright Received 11.8 p.m., Jan. 9. London, Jan. 9. Parliament has dissolved. It will be reassembled on February 13tb. The first polling will be at London on the 15th, Mr William Redmond declares that Sir H. Campbell Bannerman and his colleagues are pledged to Home Rule.

ELECTION SPEECHES. THE RAND CHINESE. By telegraph, Presa 'Aes’n, Cojryright Received 9 27 p.m., Jan. 9. LondoD, Jan. 9. Mr Burns, speaking at Derby, characterised Mr Chamberlain’s recent statement that there were now a million ablebodied men in the workhouses BDd infirmaries as an amazing blunder. He declared that all the paupers only numbered 747,090 men, women, and children. There wore only 7615 able-bodied men in the workhouses of England and Wales. Mr Asquith, speaking at Huddersfield, expressed tbe hope to amend the law relating to trade disputes, and to expend the workmen’s compensation, also industries.

Mr Sydney Buxton, speakiDg at Poplar, declared : “ I will not support Homs Rule in the coming Parliament, though that is not to say I will vote against it.” Lord Lansdowne, at Manchester, said : “ When the Liberals were last in office we were in hot water in many parts of the world. Yet Mr Asquith, after years of Unionist government, rosently asked, 1 Where could England’s enemies be found ?’ ” Lord. Lansdowne said he was content to aocept that as pn epitaph on bis political tombstone. He declared that the Libera's had never raised the smallest embankment to arrest the great tide of protection invading the world. Received 9.43 p.m., Jan. 9. Capetown, Jan. 9. Referring to Mr Lloyd George’s aoonsation of Uickery the Rand Chamber of Mines states thst the Lieutenant-Gover-nor in tho ordinary course sanctioned permits for 15,100 coolies required up to June next without reference to Mr Lyttaltoo. Since the 20th December 1250 more applications have been received, and were not yet granted. London, Jan. 9. Mr John Morley’s address to his constituents declares that the ineinoerity of tho Unionists is manifest since if the Government obtained a majority they wouid undoubtedly deny that the Liberals had received a mandate on Homo Rule. Every vote against the Government meant a vote for taxation of food, for a protective tariff, for a gigantic dislocation of commerce.