IMPERIAL POLITICS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 43, 26 June 1913, Page 5

IMPERIAL POLITICS.

o INSURANCE ACT AMENDMENT (Received 10.5 a.m.) London, June 25. Mr Lloyd George has introduced an Insurance Act Amendment Bill, whir excludes . insured persons earning over £l6O a year from ,the medi iai benefits, penalises employers fj\ deducting more from the wages thai the Act allows, and extends the ful benefits of the' Act to persons ovei 50 years of age H.M.S. PSYCHE'S REPAIRS. (Received 10.20 a.m.) Mr Churchill, in reply to a qucstio: in the House of Commons-stated tha the gunboat Psyche's principal rejpai'.; consisted largely of the renewal of th upper deck; repairs to the frame bof torn, plating, poop, forecastle, crank; .lid boiler casings.

SIR RUFUS ISAACS. Sir Rufus Isaac's constituents ai Reading carried a resolution expres sing their unshaken confidence it their representative, notwithstanding the Marconi shares transactions. Sir Rufus Isaacs has been so mud in the public eye in connection wit. the Marconi enquiry, that the charai tev sketch written by Mr T. P. O'Cor; nor, M.P., in the Pall Mall Maga ?.ine, has a more than usual interest Mr O'Connor compares his hero as . ooy to the principal character of t:r ''Bad Boy's Diary." As a matter o fact, however, he was not bad at all merely a wild untamable spirit ful of the joy of life; of verile and auda cbus courage, and of a thirst for ad venture and independence. It was only to be expected of such a youth that he would do something unusual so his family could hardly be expocte; to exhibit great perturbation when, on tine day, he ran away to sea. There h fared hardly for a time, till he adoptet [lie sage advico of an old sailor wri< lv.de him go with and not agains his chiefs. He took the advice, bu could not devote himself to the smooth and uneventful path of soli bary existence. He left the sea, trie* the Stock Exchange, and, tiring o that, decided to seek his fortunes ii America. He almost went, but al Fenchurch station lie encountered his mother. She begged him not k go, and eventually succeeded in persuading him that his predestined career was that of a barrister. For three years he worked steadily ami hard yet always without definite hope of success. It was at this period of lift that lie married, and he was inspired by his wife to continue in the line o', life he had chosen for himself. Then. all at once the tide turned, bushier: came with a rush, and the young ad vocate rushed into prominence. Ir ten years he found himself so busy a.-

a junior that in sheer self-defence h had to take silk. H<< became so sought after that he had the offer <>. a brief in every big case. What ulti mutely is the secret of Sir llufus Isaacs' success? Firstly, says Mr O'Connor, he has a thorough master-} of each case. Add to that "an extraordinary common-sense" and a knowledge of human nature, which is too indulgent to be cynical, though none the less acute and a perfect imperturahility of temper. Not the least ol the reasons for Sir Rufus Isaacs' success was his splendid constitution. liis capacity for work is extraordinary. In the days when he whs a private mem Iter he would plead in the courts! in the morning and afternoon, go to the House in the evening, or t>m- i,ip:to a reception, get home at midnight, and get up next morning at four to prepare his cases tor the day. He has come through years of this kind < ' closely-packed existence, thvou'?'' uoubt, difficulty, anxiety, the competition of the courts, and the storm hticl stres-i of political life, "without turn ing a hair."