BRITISH POLITICS.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIII, Issue 9116, 8 April 1908, Page 5

BRITISH POLITICS.

THE LATE PREMISE’S HEALTH.

Press Association.— Copyright. ; London, April 7. ' During the last few days there has teen no change for the worse in Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman's health He takes an interest in current events. parliament adjourned till the 14th. : Lords Ripen and Lansdowne, and ’Messrs 4 Asquith, Balfour, and Redmond paid warm tributes to Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman’s cha- ■ racter and services. His retirement evoked many public expressions of sympathy, including a unanimous resolution by the Central Committee of the Manchester Ooneervative Association expressive of profound regret that Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman’s health neces- ' gitated his resignation and the earnest hope that he would long be spared to enjoy in retirement the respect and esteem in which he is held by all political parties. Mr Asquith has started for Biarritz. TARIFF REFORM.

Mr Chamberlain, in acknowledging the resolution adopted by the Conservative Association’s meeting at Oarterball Yalley, said he believed Tariff Reform and Preference had taken a firm hold on the British people. He had never, in long experience, known any new policy to receive so much acceptance in so short a time. MR CHURCHILL’S OPPONENTS. Received April 7, 82.8 a-m. la anticipation of Mr Churchill’s promotion to the Cabinet, Manchester Conservatives are strenuously preparing for the election. [All members who are appointed to office have to submit to re-election. On a poll of 10,000 at the general election, Mr Churchill had a majority of 1200. ]