BRITISH POLITICS.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIII, Issue 9067, 6 February 1908, Page 5

BRITISH POLITICS.

Press] Association. —Copyright. Received February 6, 8.58 a.m. London, February 5. Mr Long’s amendment to the Ad-dress-in-Reply was rejected by 414 to 115. Mr Carson said that if Government considered that serious offences in Ireland are inevitable because there is not land enough for all that is tantamount to preaching socialism pure and simple. Mr Sherry insisted that the amount of crime in Ireland in 1907 was less bv half than the average for the five preceding years. By trusting to the ordinary law Government hoped to enlist the sympathies of the people on the side of the law, so securing tranquility. At the instance of the Labour Party Mr Barnes moves ithat the status of 'Ministerial portfolios be not altered until it is ascertained how far the duties now assigned to the Home Board of Trade and the local government departments in relation to Labour could be grouped under the control of a Minister of Labour. Mr Grey, in reply to Mr Macarness, said the Densiiawi prisoners concerned in the death of Captain Ball at Fan tab were released on January 7th by the Khedive’s clemency in. co-operation with Britain.