BRITISH POLITICS
THE BLIXiET I'HUI'OSALS. XAXIXIi LAXD VALLES. London, -May 13, The liinil values duties' uiuuuuil was carried by 330 votes to 120. Air, Haroid Cox, Liberal member fur i'restoii, isaid there was no legitimate difference be-, hvecii income derived from land and income derived from other sources. He usked why mortgage laud should not be treated like huid itself. It was a mortgage on enterprise, .but owning the freehold was a crime. He derided taxing ungottcn minerals and said it was like taxing baehvloi's for the potential value of their iingoUcu oll'spring. The lit. Hon. Lyttelton showed the immeiine cost of the* valuations. Money sweated oil' the owners should not go into lie Exchequer but to lawyers and surveyors.
ilr. Chamberlain and Mr. lialfour hotly protested against the haste of the Government in forcing the proposals through the House of Commons. Mr. J. C. Higham's motion in favor of the pavment of members was carried by 242 votes to 92.
THE NATIONAL PARTY, | Loudon, Mav 13. I The National Purty in the House of I Commons refused to enrol Maurice Healy, the recently elected member for Corli. OLD-AGE PENSIONS. Received 13, 0.3 a.m. London, May 14. Mr. Chas. E. Hiibhouse, in the House of Common**, stated that since January ,1300 pensions had been withdrawn in liritain and 1200 hi Ireland. The inquiry was unfinished, but so far any suggestions of fraud on the part of the people in Ireland was without foundation.
Mr. liirrell (Secretary for Ireland) stated that, out of 12,770 appeals, 10,891 went rejected, One thousand right hundred and eighty-fire pensions wore granted.
The Nationalists hotlv attacked the ' Government for ordering the investigation. AM HAT BILL. Received 14, 11.43 p.m. London. Slay 14. Hunt'? Foreign and Colonial Heat ItiM was read a first time in the House of Common?. It. provides that all selling foreign or colonial meat shall affix n notice to that effect plainly in the shone and vehicles used to supply the goods.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 93, 15 May 1909, Page 2
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