BRITISH POLITICS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1662, 31 January 1906, Page 2

BRITISH POLITICS.

THE ELECTIONS,

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London, Jan. 29

Mr Bryoe, speaking at Dublin, said ho did not think it possible to make provision for work for unemployed an Imperial ebargo by taxing vvoiksrs, possibly on tbo edge of poverty, for tbo bonefit, of others perhaps not equally industrious. Mr Haldanp, speak'Dg at Edinburgh, dwelling on the potent influence of the University, suggested that the rise of tho Labor party was duo (o a suspicion that the Liberal party was lacking in ideas. Any attempt ti tyrcnnously exerciso seats of power would result iQ reaction, but the Liberals, by tbo wise exercise of power, combined with Bcioot'fic knowledge, hoped to rondar eapo fiuous tho aspirations of a separata independent Labor party. Mr Haldano implied that the State might take action precluding tho notion that lub r commodity should bo bought in tho cheapest and sold in the dearest market. Mr Lougb, Under-Secretary to the Board of Education, in a letter to the Times, says the Government does not in tend to touch tho fundamental principles of reform embodied in the Education Act. The following members have been roolected :

North Down : T. L. Corbett, 0. South Londonderry : John Gordon, Ui A further election is : Crieklado : Massey, L.

WILL BALFOUR CROSS THE

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Received 12.9 a.m, Jan. 31. London, Jan. 30, The following has been re-Bleoted : IlkestOD, Sir W. B. Foster, Liberal. Received 12.14 a m., Jan. 31.

The executive of tha City Conservative Association thanked Mr Gibbs for resigning bis seat, and unanimously adopted Mr Ba'four as a candidate, after a momentary protest from Mr H. W. Russell, who objected to a dual leadership and declared that Mr Balfour would never get hold of the democracy and never could. Sir Joseph Lawrence, a Tariflite, supporting Mr Balfour, urged that as regards tariff reform Mr Balfour’s views were much more in consonance with Mr Chamber-. lain's than many supposed. The Morning Post Btatea that upwards of one hundred tariff reformers have been elected. The real issue is whether there will be four parties or five in the House of Commons ? Will Mr Balfour lead a number of supporters across tho bridge, and as leader of a united patty take his place on Mr Chamberlain’s side? Tariff reformers want a direct answer.