BRITISH POLITICS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 61, 25 October 1907, Page 3

BRITISH POLITICS.

CRYING SOCIAL EVILS. THE PREMIER'S SPEECH. J London, October 23. The Premier, Sir H. Campbell-Banner-e man, speaking at Dunfermline, emphasised that social reforms were clamoring ® fcr solution. He said drunkenness was ' depopulating the country. The bud ! housing, the infant mortality, and the ignorance of the masses on all subjects ! demanded sterner methods of treatment ' than unionists were willing to employ. These formed the objects of the Bills which the Lords prevented from becoming law—such Bills as trie Education ; Bill, Land Values of Scotland Bill, and the S.ottish Small Holders Bill. In the course of his remarks Sir 11. Campbell-Bannerman advised the suffragettes "that if they pestered people persistently ttiey would probably win , sooner than many thought. LORDS AND COMMONS. AN OBDURATE PEER. Received Oct. 24, tUO p.m. London, October 24. Lord Roseberry, speaking at Glasgow, said if, as intimated in the highest quarters, the Government's Scotch Small Landhodlers' Bill was to be introduced in an improved form, it could only lie meant as a battering ram, beeiuse it could not lie expected that the Lords, without reasons were shown, would recant their deliberate opinion on the principle of the Bill.