BRITISH POLITICS.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIV, Issue 9467, 9 June 1909, Page 5

BRITISH POLITICS.

United Press Association. —By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. London, June 8. Mr Austen Chamberlain moved the rejection of the Budget. He said the Government was forging, a weapon of oppression and confiscation. The real authors of the Budget were the Labour Party. Mr Philip Snowden said that if the Budget were carried it would be a triumph for Free Trade, and the death-blow to Fiscal Reform. - Let the electors decide. He scoffed at the idea that capital would take wings and fly away, and vigorously defended the land clauses. The debate was adjourned.; Suffragettes placarded Mr Asquith’s bouse with copies of his portrait whiohSis being shown in the Academy with an inscription ‘‘Votes for Women.”