BRITISH POLITICS.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXI, Issue 8738, 12 February 1907, Page 2

BRITISH POLITICS.

Press Association—Copyright. London, February 11. Mr Gibson Bowles asserts that Captain Sir Acland Hood, M.P., will propose at King’s Lynn that the Free Food Association shall reunite with the .Conservatives on the basis of the exclusion of additional taxation of food from future Conserva live candidates’ programmes. Mr Walton explains that his remarks about the Lords, cabled on the Bth ; were personal, unpremeditated, and were not intended to be reported. He regrets that ho unhappily used language lending itselfto startling headlines. Mr Winston Churchill also explains his Leeds speech, in which he seemed to welcome general reciprocity, Slid states no Freetrader would consent to purchase frootrado within tho Empire at .the cost of a protective tariff around the United Kingdom, If highly Protectionist colonies jjjgdo reciprocal arrangements with eaeii" other, the United Kingdom would benefit under the most favoured nation principle.