BRITISH POLITICS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIV, Issue XXIV, 20 June 1902, Page 3

BRITISH POLITICS.

PEIt PRESS ASSOCIATION. London*, June 18. An amendment on the Licensing Bill, to compel publicans to supply non-intoxicants when asked, was negatived by 173 to 153, tbe mi not ity including a d( zen Unionists. Received 19, 10.52 p.m. London, June 19. • In moving the rej ctioo of the corn duties Mr John Morley accused Sir Michael Hicks- Be ich cf opening wide the door to Piottetion, also vaguely hinting 'at an alteration of the finatchl relations of the Motherland and the colonies, and that the effect of the substi u ion of colonial f. r foreign produce would be to raise the price of raw material and ircrease the cost of manufacture. This would handicap Bri'aio abroad, >:nd play ducks and drakis with a great trade for t! e suka of a reUitive'y sm-ll one. It would be disastrous to inteif. re with the ramparts of the lis ai policy wLicli was the basis of Britain's opulence !>.nd credit, i An ar.im tel dolate followed, in! wh ; ch Sir Miebiel Hicks-Beach dis-j claimed the idra of using t'ae tax to al erthe fiscal poli<y. Thetaxwasntcs- j rimy to meet riu.nicial requirements. It I was not tbe Gove nm. n '* pol cy to try to encourage colonial trade by infciatiug I a tariff «ar with i,ts b°st customers. I Tot.lk of preferential duties w«s to i trail a rid herring over the scant. The amendment was negatived by 251 <o 118. The third reiding is 6xed for Monday. The grant tn L "id Kitchener was coDfiinudby 227 to 48. Received 20, 1.9 a.m. London, June 19. Sr Michael Hicks-Beach has aceepedthe Nationalist' tuggrstion to reduce the maize tax by one-half. Mr Redmond expre?std an acknowledgment of the concession.