BRITISH POLITICS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 98, 15 June 1911, Page 6

BRITISH POLITICS.

(Received 15, 10.50 a.in.) London, June 11. Sir Edward Grey lias introduced a Bill to consolidate and amend the enactment relating to naval prizes, and a 1101 amending the laws relating to international tribunals and neutrality, thus enabling too country to carry out the Declaration. ..... . . ... , •• ■ ■ ... - SUCCESSFUL LIBEL ACTION. AN ELECTION PAMPHLET. .. j • : ■ .. (Received 15, 10.30 a.m.), London, Juno 11. Before the King’s Bench Division Lieut.-Colonol Bromley Davenport, who hnsuccessfully contested the election with Mr. Robert Pearce for* the Leek Division of Staffordshire, was awarded £I2OO damages against Mr. Pearce for printing an election pamphlet libelling the plaintiff. UUNSVERSS7Y HONOURS. (Received 15, 9.30 a.m.) London, Juno 14. The Public Orator at Cambridge (University in a lauclatorvLatin speech conferring the Doctorate of Laws on Sir Joseph Ward, General Botha, and Mr Morris, mentioned that it had been intended to confer the degrees on others who were absent, including t!:,r;-LoTd' Grey, who was in Canada, and Mr Rctlisciiild, who was ill, while Mr Fisher had declined the honour which the University desired to pay to Australia no loss than himself. ALLEGED NEWS. WHAT THE PRESS PAYS FOR. (Received 15, 10.50 a.m.) London, June 14. Mr McGowan, in receiving an invitation to address the Oldham Road brotherhood, .at Manchester,' remarked that if Manchester wished it some Sunday, ho must do it for his mother's sake, as was) ‘his birthplace. - ‘ *■