IMPERIAL POLITICS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIV, Issue 34, 10 February 1902, Page 3

IMPERIAL POLITICS.

FSB PRESS ASSOCIATION. 1 Loudon, February 7. 1 In tbe Home of Common* Mr Chamberlain opposed Sir Henry Camp- 1 bell-Bannerman's amendment on tbe i ground that reference of the rules of procedure to a Select: Committee would occasion a year's delay. Mr Olid- ! stone's drastic reforms in 1882 were considered by the House. Mr Redmond taunted the House of Commons on its increasing creeping < paralysis. Ne penalties would suppress Nationalists' protests against the i oppressien or disfranchisement of Ireland, Tbe only alternatives of Home Rule were apparently new rules designed to secure disfranchisement. Mr Wood's success at Eastdown was ' due to the Nationalist vote. ' Received 9.6.17 p.m. « London, February 8. Mr D. V. Pirie, M.P. for North Aberdeen, has asked whether tbe Bergls' contract has been transferred to tbe Wernber Yeits people for £IOO,OOO. Lord Stanley said the War Office was aware the syndicate which was backing the Bergls intendid to float the%ompany. Be found the syndicate equal to fulfilling tbe contract. He w»8 not aware of the nature of the Bergs agreement with the syndicate, but £200,000 had been deposited as a guarantee of the fulfilment of the contract. It was admitted that Bergl wes fined at Liverpool for an offence wfcich was outside the army contracts. He was itquirisg into the circumstances. Lard Stanley later on communicated a statement toKthe Press that the backers, who were reliable firms, had guaranteed that if B;rgl got the contract a company would be fanned. The company had now been formed and registered at Pretoria, with a capital of £650,000, of which £200,000 had been subscribed. The tender wes given to Bergl as representing tbe company. Sir ,H. Cunpbell-Binnerman's procedure amendment was negatived by 250 votes to 160, and the second reading was then agreed to.