IMPERIAL POLITICS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVIII, Issue 81918, 18 February 1907, Page 3

IMPERIAL POLITICS

FEMALE SUFFii AGISTS DELIGHTED. WOIiCESTEIt'S DISFRANCHISE MENT. London, February 15. The suffngettcs ire generally delighted that Mr Dickenson has drawn first place lor the discussion on llie bi ! l fur woman suffrage Tae Common!! by 11)2 to lUOrrjetl >d Mt Acland-llo:>d's motion for a urn for an election in "Worcester, Tile Government did not resist the motion. Mr Hood, later on, addressing the National Society of Conservation Agents, described the Commons' decision as au inconceivably dirty lricl>. IK Ik; rejeetijn of Mr Hood's motion Worcester is practically disfranchised fir at hast another year. The I'all Mall Gazetic says that whereas in Clanrica-de's case the responsibilities of property were cynically ignored, this despeiate case may require a desperate remedy, especially if it selfishly obstructs a great national settlement.

TARIFF itHFOHM. GHOUNDS FOR I/NITKD UNIONISTS' PROGRAMME. SPEECH BY .MR BALFOUR. GOVERNMENT AND HOUSE OF LORDS.

Keceived 17, 5.11 p.m. London, February 10. Mr Balfour addressing the National Union and Conservative Constitutional Association said he saw unmistakably, signs of a coalescence of Unionist views, in the direction of a safe, sound and sober policy of liscal reform, based on grounds of the absolute necessity of enlarging the basis of taxation, the vital need of safe-guarding the greet productiye industries against unfair competition, the need of a wider foreign market, and the necessity of securing the great colonial market of the future. Mr Balfour declared that the Government had no constructive policy, and therefore threatened the House of Lords, but the Government did not possess a moral position to enable them to revolutionise our historic constitution.

WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE BILL. Received 17, 5.29 p.m. London, February 10. Mr Dickenson's Women's Suffrage Bill was read a first time in the House of Commons.