BRITISH POLITICS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 103, 22 April 1908, Page 2

BRITISH POLITICS.

THE MANCHESTER ELECTION. London, April 20. The Times says that apart frotn the prospect of tlie loss ot a hundred votes to Mr. Dan Irving, the Socialist candidate, the transfer of five hundred to Mr. Hicks must rather upset Mr. Churchill's calculations. H e had great hopes of carrying the solid Irish vote. Mr. Hicks, in a speech, described the Miners' Eight Hours Bill as a tax on law material, and said the action of free traders in supporting it was inconsistent.

The woman suffragists are straining every nerve to bring about tlie defeat! oi Mr. Churchill. Ml?. CHUUOIIILL ON IRELAND. IMPORTANT PARTY ANNOUNCEMENT, Received April 21, 10.58 p.m. London, April 21. Mr. Churchill, speaking at Manchester, said he was convinced the national settlement of Irish, difficulties was indispensable to any harmonious conception of Liberalism. He liad Mr. AsquitU's concurrence in saying that if Parliament were dissolved, the palty should claim full authority and a. free hand to deal with the problem of Irish j self-government without being restricted to mere measures of devolution, like the abandoned Irish Council.

THE INDEPENDENT LABORITES.

Received Opril 21, 10.50 p.m. London, April 21.

The Independent Labor Party's conference at Huddersiicld, Mr. Ramsay MacDoftald presiding, agreed with Mr. V. Grayson's offer to join the party without signing the constitution.

MR. CHAMBERLAIN.

GETTING READY FOR THE FRAY.

Received April 21, 11.28 p.m. London, April 21.

llr. Chamberlain, in a letter to a correspondent, savs: "The greatest trial of patience I must display is to feel that it will not be long before I will be able to do something which will be indeej gratifying to me when there is so much to be taken to hand."