BRITISH POLITICS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 174, 16 August 1909, Page 2

BRITISH POLITICS

ItETURNED UXOPPOSEIi' By Cable.—Pre.. AMo«uitJe*.-40»pyrjgnt London, August U. Mr. Matthew Keating, NaUowjW wa« returned unopposed for Kflkennvßouth, in place oi Mr. J. Jlurphy,» who had resigned. ■,""■"

THE PRIMROSE vk&SUt. u *. « . ~ London, The. Primrose League membership has reached two.millions, ; .' ,F ■ THE, BUDGET ijEßA|^. ( . "London, 'AuginrlS Mr. Rutherford moved an amendment that a tenant; undertaking to develop land should pay &e'4tigjsntil the owner recovered possession. ' . . , Sir W. S. Robson, Attorney-General, said an owner had'already!a remedy against a tenant for failing to develop the land, and the amount o] duty* he paid would be included In the damages awarded.

The Hon. Lyulph Stanley declared that the Government's' course was interesting. 'Die amendment, he said, put a very severe strain on' bis party loyalty. Mr. A J. Balfour, Leader of the Opposition, who wits much > cheered, remarked: ''According to the AttorneyGeneral an owner is compelled to pay duty because a tenant has not fulfilled his obligations, and we must launch a lawsuit to evict this landlord who expects to enforce his rights to the uttermost farthing. This, forsooth, is the | advice of a Government whose members are described as landlords and as blackmailers."

Mr. Lloyd-George, Chancellor of the Exchequer, said cases such as mentioned would be rare. . , ~,. The amendment was negatived by 108 votes to 87. ■ ■■■ tThe clause was thereafter carried, the voting being: For 170, against 01. ■' LAND TAXATION VrOPOSAM. X NEW ZEALAND LEGISLATION CITED. Received August 15, 6.5 p,m. London, August 14. Tn tin- House of Commons Hie Appropriation Bill was read IV third time. Clause 14 of the Finance Bill, relating to the graduated tax on the total value of land, was' adopted by 112 to 88. Air. Lloyd George emphasiirtjfce. fact that similar objections to those! pressed against this clause hod been urged when the proposals were introduced In New Zealand. Nevertheless, these were working smoothly, and New Zealand had offered the Old Country a Dreadnought out of her own taxes. He predicted that the present Opposition would some day congratulate themselves upon the resources placed at their disposal by the present proposal.