BRITISH POLITICS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXI, Issue 1703, 20 March 1906, Page 2

BRITISH POLITICS.

LABOR REPRESENTATION.

By telegraph, Press Ass’n, Copyright London, Maroh 18.

Mr Keir Hardie, at Mercy, declared that up to the present labor had been tolerated. The moment it was known that representation od committees meant encroachment on the privileges of monopolists, tbe fight would begin in earnest.

THE HOME RULE QUESTION,

By telegraph, Presa Asra’n, Copyright Received 9.10 p.m., Maroh 19, London, Maroh 19. .*>

Mr Keir Hardie states that payment of members is not included in the Labor programme, though the representation committees will vote for tbe principle. Me John Redmond, at Manchester, declared that the Nationalists believed tbe English masses desired to deal fairly with Ireland, therefore they would give the Government adequate but not indefinite time to fulfil its promises. Personally, he was sanguine of the future, and foresaw the time that the union would be bound only by the rights, privileges, and liberties that every nation should eDjoy.

MR CHAMBERLAIN AND MR CHURCHILL.

THE SOUTH AFRICAN QUESTION.

By telegraph, Press Aas’n, Copyright Received 9 25 p.m,, Maroh 19.

London, March 19.

Mr Chamberlain in a letter to the Times, replying to Mr ChnrchiU’a attacks, compared him to a political turvey drop, and condemned as a Pharisaical Opposition’s statement that the importation of Chinese was repugnant to morality. Findiog the pigtail eeotion of the party was dissatisfied with the decision to throw the ultimate responsibility of continuing or abolishing the system upon the new Transvaal Government, Mr Churchill now announced the policy of intervention, which unconstitutional inconsistent Liberal principles was insulting to the colonies and provoking serious oonfliot in tha Motherland; and the fist colony subjected to this new assertion of Imperial authority whioh expfioted a State possessing responsible government to communicate its measures to the Colonial Ofiioe beforehand with the possibility of veto.