BRITISH POLITICS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 3120, 20 January 1908, Page 2

BRITISH POLITICS

•London, January 11.Tlie Hon. Sydney iiuitou, Postniaßt-, er-uenerul, speuKWg at Mmourgh, tuiogisuU the nun. l). iiioyU-Ueorge a Merchants Snipping act, tvindi played, foreign snips emering British ports under the same condition* as Bnti«h, vessels. Though lie was a i'ree-tracler, lie would certainly give no ''preference 111 trade to a foreigner. , Mr Austin Chamberlain,'speaking At Dudley, declared that tlie mass of tjb« Unionists were -united to support Mi' Balfour's fiscal reform policy.' WMile they did not desire to ostraaiSe anybody, they could not abandon -the 1 poliey'to secure the co-operation of Lord Crojnw and others, however eminent they might be -

FISCAL REFORM. . Received 19th, 5.4 p,.m. * London, January 18. The Right Hon. A. J. Balfour, at a great Unionist demonstration at .Glasgow, admitted the ditlieulty of the prof lems ahead, but the dangers of fiscal Te* form were far leßs than those associated. with social reform. Both were"' difficult, both, necessary, but if the Unionits aspired to achieve these reforms, two small, though not important, extreme wings who found, it difficult to work' with the vast solid main body, must sink their differences and arrange to co-operate. Mr Balfour said ho was convinced that there was a great) party who favored k moderate and rear sonable policy of fiscal reform. If mutual concessions enabled them to adopt an effective common action, the country would reject the most reckless Government that ever held office and call to power men with a constitutional Imne* rial policy. 1

A BYE-ELECTION. Received Jan. 19, 5.2 p.m. London, January 18. llie bye-election for Mid-Devon, to All. the vacancy caused by the sitting member, Mr. H. T. Eve, being appointed » member of the High Court, resulted— Captain E. F. Morrison Bell, Unionist, ■>1!)1; Buxton, Liberal, 4632. [At the general election in 1908 Mr. Harry Trclawney Eve. If.C. (Liberal) defeated Captain K F. .Morrison Bell (Conservative) by 50711 votes to 3790. Ihe seat is better known as the Ashburton seat.]

THE IRISH PARTY. Received 19th, 5.2 p.m. , London, January 18, Messrs. William O'Brien and T. sf. Henlpy have accepted the Irish Parliamentary Party's pledge with a view <•<> jordially complete the reunion.