IMPERIAL POLITICS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVIII, Issue 81918, 7 February 1907, Page 3

IMPERIAL POLITICS

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Till: CUMING JjlttSlUX. (jIIAYE LWIISUVI'IOX l-OKIC SHADOWED. deceived Gtii, D.41 p.m.. London, February (i. In his customary letter to his supporter* ou tin* eve oi the assembling of Parliament. Sir 11. Campbell Bann?rman stales that tiie attention of 1 lit* House of Commons will inunodiatfly lie called to luuli'i'n of grave important. Tlii> is inti-rproU\l to refer lo the reform oi tin* ilousi* of Lords spEirit i3v JIII ciin;ani.L. SIILADKON Fun OITLYJXi; m&ESSSIOXS) COJIJIL'KCI AL COXI'KKEXCLS. COLONIAL t'ON'FKU te.Vt'K TO UK I' XIIKSTU I (.TED. lU'Ceived CJi, 10.2) p.m.

London, February (»• -Mr Wiiif-ton Churchill, speaking al a Chamber < f Commerce dinner al Leeds, drew a !e->on from llie Jamaican disaster, and the seoiv of needs el>e-where. that it was urgent to establish a squadron of warships of some sort or other u» patrol tiie outlying JJritish possessions. The system of commercial preferences >t;U'ted by the lai Covnnnnt won'.d. he said, be -extended and made regit Jar, bringing practical business men | throughout the country into elosiT relations with high oliicials of tiie Colonial Otlices. There would be. on a!l sides, unrestricted freedom and frankness at thy 'Colonial Conference.

COLONIAL PREFERENCES.', SUPPORTED BY IMPERIAL GOVERNMENT. Reeved (itli. 10.20 p.m. I/>ndon c February I). Mr Churchill .said tin* (Jovermnenl ruined highly the preferences already oiTeml by the colonies. because of the loyal and noble .sentiment prompting them, because th:'V were freely "riven, and beeau-e in that way the colonies \vere> able to make some return to the Motherland for ihe great expenditure of a common defence. The Government sympathised with and supported tue growing practice of intercolonial preference, because it invoiv.l the lowering of duties and facilitated the approach of intercolonial free trade, the goal of both tariff reformers and free traders in Britain.

MRMMNG THK LORDS. Reeived 7th, 1.0 a.m. London, February (!. The ''Daily Telegraph" slates thai Lord Newton is drafting a Hill to include in the Hou-e of Lords ex-Minis teis and some others wim have served the State, also the election of a number of Peers by delegation, similar to the Scottish and Irish peers.