BRITISH POLITICS.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIV, Issue 9390, 9 March 1909, Page 5

BRITISH POLITICS.

United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. London, March 8. Mr Dillon, speaking at Battersea, declared the Nationalists strongly supported the Irish Land Bill. It contained the machinery for relnedying the prevailing miserable tions. He added that the Party intended to fight against the increased navy estimates, as being calculated to involve an anti-Irish policy. AN IRISH AGITATOR. Detract O’Brien, an Irish League organiser, has been sentenced to three months’ imprisonment, in default of giving bail, at Templemore, County Tipperary, for inflammatory speeches and denouncing prominent graziers. TAXING THhi TRUSTS. Received March 9, 8.0 a.m. London, March 8. N In the House of Commons, Mr Lloyd George,- replying tojJMr Field, stated that the Government was considering the possibility of making the American Beef Trust pay an income tax on the profits arising from their transactions in Britain. HOME OR FOREIGN GRANITE. Heckled in the House of Commons concerning the use of Norwegian granite at the Rosyth Docks, instead of Irish or British, Mr Burns refused to grant the Admiralty £30,000, the differenoa in cost between Scandinavian and British granite for the purpose of giving employment.