BRITISH POLITICAL CRISIS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 204, 2 October 1909, Page 2

BRITISH POLITICAL CRISIS

WILL THE LORDS PASS THE BUDGET? THE INFLUENCE 01£_TliE KINO. £y Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright Received I, 11.40 p.m. London, October 1. The Daily News declares that tue omens tell strongly in the direction of the Peers parsing the Budget, Tlie Influence of the Court In the l-ower and Upper House, it says, hat o/tea been used to avert a constitutional crisis. That influence to-day was as powerful as ever. The Daily Graphic understands that Lord Lanedou'iie shortly visits King Edward. Ihis evidence of the King's interest in tlie pending crisis is regarded as of the highest significance, especially after l/>rd Rosebery's five days' stay at Balmoral Castle. PETITIONING THE LORDS.

Received 1, 11.45 p.m. London, October 1. A petition has been prepared for t'ie signature of bankers and merchants iji the city urging on the Lords to talc.; such action as will give tile people an opportunity to express their views on the Budget before passing it into law. " UNSCRUPULOUS AND DEGRADKIX" MR. BALFOUR AND THE METHODS OF THE RADICALS. London, Septemlier 30, Mr. Balfour, Leader of the Opposition, in a letter to Mr. B. Stanier, member for Newport, who mentioned the reports of Radical speakers declare that if tariff reform is established there will be no more old-age pensions, and also reports that when the election comet toe Radicals will post this statement outside the post offices where pensions are paid, denounces' these methods as unscrupulous and degraded, recalling the campaign of mendacity in connection with Oliinese labor. He feels confident that the Radical leaders will discourage such a system of lying, which must harm the cause of free institution.