BRITISH POLITICS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 176, 16 July 1908, Page 3

BRITISH POLITICS.

SUFFRAGETTE'S MADNESS. _ London. July 14. Mrs Drummond, the suffragette lead»f'p»^lfS u Dg * meetin S « f suffragettes at Peckham, said she was ready for sedition or anything else so long as she got the vote. If men would come to tiie .House of Commons with plenty of bucks and Btones, she would be there.

THE KING WARNED. ~ London, July 14. air. heir Ilardie, addressing his constituents, said that, should the Lord Chamberhim admit that he did not invite him to the garden party because he had not previously responded to invitations, be would let the matter drop, since Charles I.'s days, he added, the C7. ,n S stood outside politics. } if Aing Edward were foolish enough to in- I terfere with politics and the Commoners, it would be a very bad day for him. A PEER'S COMPLAINT. T London, July 14. In the House of Lords, Lord Lansdowne complained of the delay in sending measures to the House of Lords. This was certain, he said, to produce a worse legislative scramble than ever.

REDUCTION OF DUTIES.

Received 16th, 12.43 a.in. I London, July 15. In 'the Home of Commons, Mr. P. •Snowden's amendment to reduce the duty oh tea to threepence as an instalment of the abolition' of indirect taxation, was negatived by 230 to 01. •Mr. Snowden could not see the difference between a duty on corn and a| duty on tea. He warned the Government that tariff reform wsri making headway. It was difficult to oppose taxation on manufactures while that on tea and sugar were retained.