BRITISH POLITICS.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIV, Issue 9445, 15 May 1909, Page 5

BRITISH POLITICS.

;United Press Association,— By Eleo- ’ Telegraph. —-Copyright. London, May 14. Mr Hobhousa, in the House of • Commons, stated that since January 1800 pensions had been •withdrawn in i Britain and 1200 in Ireland. The .inquiry was unfinished, but so far any suggestion of fraud on the part of the people ptlreland was without Mr Binell stated that out of 13,776 - appeals, 10,891 had been rejected and 1885 pensions granted. , , The Nationalists hotly attacked -the Government, demanding an investigation. ' _ . , Mr Hunt’s Foreign and Colonial Meat Bill, which was read for tne first time, provides that all poisons .selling foreign or colonial meat must affix a notice to that effect plainly m their shops and on vehicles used to .-supply the goods. \ THE'OIGARMAKERS’ COMPLAINT. • (Received May 15, 8 35 a.m. > London, May 14. Mr Lloyd George is daily receiving -deputations to protest against the •Budget. ■ .r oigarmakers complain that tne reduction in size of English cigars Will necessitate new moulds, which are only obtainable in Germnay, and that it.willltake three months ;to obtain them. IHE SPIRIT TAX. Received May 15, 8.15 a-m. London, May 14. Mr Lloyd George estimates the total annual produce of the additional spirit tax at £9,334,345 whereof £4,539,083 will be from Scotland.