BRITISH POLITICS.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXII, Issue 8963, 31 October 1907, Page 2

BRITISH POLITICS.

Press Association—Copyright. London, October 30. Mr Asquith, in a speech at Newport, said ho was prepared to give open-minded and fair consideration to any practicable scheme for reforming the House of Lords, but the power of unlimited veto must bo first removed. Lord Milner, speaking at Guildford, urged the Unionists to adopt a constructive policy by avowing clearly defined principles. The true antidote of revolutionary Socialism was practical social refornis. Mr Haldane, at Newcastle, feared that Socialism was tending toward Tory reaction. Some of the aspirations of advanced Socialism were best realised by sticking to solid and substantial, if humdrum, methods of Liberalism. Suffragists severely heckled Mr Asquith and Mr Harcourt when addressing their constituents. Mr Lloyd George is hopeful of a peaceful settlement of“tho railwaymen’s question.