BRITISH POLITICS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 234, 8 November 1909, Page 2

BRITISH POLITICS.

THE SINEWS OF WAR. By Calile.—Press Association.-—Copyrig# London, November 5.

The Chronicle slates that Mr. T. P. O'Connor has raided ill the United States over £IO,OOO for the Irish Parliamentary Party's funds.

LIBERAL'S VIEWS. London, November 5. Mr. H. W. Bottomley, Liberal member for Hackney South, has written to the. R,j.-lit Hon. J. A. Peaae that he will vote for the Budget, but will support any amendment introduced into the Jleuse of ljOrds to delete a clause or clauses; thereby reviving the defeated Licensing Bill. Should the Budget pa 66, he will strive during 1910 to secure the removal of the unjustifiable burden it imposes on licensed trade.

IRISH LAND BILL. COMMONERS AND THE LORDS. Received Nov. 7, 5.5 p.m. London, November 0. The House of Commons disagreed will) the Lords' amendments to the Irish Land Bill, and appointed a committee t-> draft reasons for the disagreement. Mr. A. Birrell (Minister for Irish Affr.ire), in a conciliatory speech, expressed the hope that the Lords would recognise tlie Government's desire to come to terms in order .to avoid the grave misfortune which the loss of the Bill woull involve.

The Opposition complained that the Government were not treating any amendment on its merits. Mr. Dillon described the Nationalist*' mandate as "the whole Bill or none."

Mr. William Redmond predicted there would be discontent and agitatioh in the West of Ireland if the Lords persisted in their action towards the congest*! districts. The House of Commons adjourned to tho 23rd inst. IRISH PARTY AND THE BUDGET. Tho public and Press of all political parties in Ireland condemned the Na-

iinnalist refusal to vote against tie tbiid rending of the Budget. Man? of Air, Redmond's followers declare that if, aftc r his sacrificing of the Irish Interests, the Lords upset hia plans by passing li e Budget, the Nationalist party'* positun will lie almost untenable.

The Edenderry District Council unani. tunnsly summoned the Irish Party to erplnin its attitude regarding the Budpet, which imposed 10s per head on the population of Ireland in extra taxes, and declared that land taxes were calculated tn ruin Irish farmers. The council askel tin l Lords to reject the Bill. The council invited nil public and representative hoards of Ireland to act similarly.