BRITISH POLITICS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1686, 1 March 1906, Page 2

BRITISH POLITICS.

By telegraph,. Press 'Ass’n, Copyright London, Feb. 27. Mr James Bryce, 3ecretnry for Ireland, tilled io tho Houio of Commons that it was intended to tianafor control of tho Royal Irish Cjmlabul iry to the Couoty Council?. . , Me Forester's amendment to the Aa~ dress was negatived by 410 to 91- .am 0 address was adopted without division, after a dobato on the unemployed. _ Mr Lloyd George promised ai inquiry into the proorvetion of tho British coesß f oua sea encroachment, and also into tho question of ufferoßtalion. . Mr Asquith made a statement in regard ta old ago pensions. Ho said that a pem sign oi live shil i igs a week for 2,018,7_i0 persons over 60 years of ego Woull rtqu-re £25,225,000. Calcutta, Feb. 27. Lord Mintu and Lord Kitchener havo expressed complete Buti.fiction with Mr Morloy’s decision with refo.cnce to lonian army officers.

THE DEBATE CONTINUED,

By telegraph, Press Ass’n, Copyrigh Received 10 -17 p.m , Feb. 28.

London, Feb. 28 ( Mr Churchill, in reply to a question, , said it was not propos d to retemd the , reculat ons whoreby Chinese coolies were kept within tho premises of the mines. They wore not koot in compounds. (Up-po-ition chrors.) , , Lord Burghcloro resumed the debate. He said the Government should devise means for tho protect’on of the British element. _ , Lord Roberts intervened. Lest silence was interpreted ns deserting tho men to whom tho succoss of the war was largely due, be associated himself fully w.th Lord Mtloer’s views as to tho danger of placing power in the hands of men novor concealing their disloyalty, whose obje, ! was to expel the British. Lord Halifax said good government, not concessions, would conciliate the Boers. The Duke of Portsmouth emphasised the Blue Book reve'alious as to the punishment of oooites and leading anuses ns justifying the country’s feeling regarding Chinese labor. I’he Lord Chancellor slid there was never a greater blunder than Lord Milner s policy, which had led to the war. He endorsed with all his heart Sir H. Campbell Baunerman’s and Lord R'.pon s language in rogard to Chinese labor as setntslavery. Lord Milner had warned the Government of dangers ahead. The path was strewn with dangers. He was the man who had caused them. The on y ' course waß to grant responsible goverm ment. The Impetial Government trusted 1 to consolidate the while races and enable i them to live peacefully under the OrowD. i Absolute justice was the only lasting ) foundation.

INVASION BY CHINESE LABOR,

By. telegraph, Press Abu’h, Copyright

Received 12.15 a m., Feb. 29. LondoD, Fob. 28. The Lord Chancellor incident illy raised the spectre of a pcs?ibl? invasion of Europe by Ohioeso labor. He was aware tbat it would n jt be tolerated he-e, but the consideration was one which operated at last thet’on. Lord Harrowby appealed on behalf ot 200,000 British shareholders, many in bumblo circumstance?, who, unless fair play wero shown, would be the real sufferets. It was a campaign of prejudice against millionaires. Lord Lsnsdowne inferred that tho debate showed there was lilt’o difference regirding the proposed gca'. He awaited tho announcement of the Government’s safeguards to protect loyalist?, and re served his judgment Tho Times states that the debate is of tho highest impo tance. It lifts tho ques tion out of the nitre of party recrimination, and emphasises tho great permanent issues of the African policy.