BRITISH PARLIAMENT.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 339, 15 March 1910, Page 5

BRITISH PARLIAMENT.

MR RUFUS ISAACS' RE-ELECTION. THE COLONIAL DRBADNOUGHTS. THE LAW OF MURDER. CHURCH PROCESSIONS. By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright Loadon, March 13. Mr Rufus Isaacs has' been re-elected unopposed. He publicly thanked the Conservative Association for iis graceful act in not opposing him. His return, he said, was not so much a political triumph as a striking example of t:ie friendship existing between the different parties at Reading. Mr Reginald McKenna, replying to Mr Lee, stated that the Australian Indefatigables will be paid for by the Dominions, hence they could not be included in the Estimates for new construction.

Mr Winston Churchill, replying to Mr McArthur, said that the question connected with ecclesSastical processions in streets adjacent to Westminster Cathedral on the occasion of the consecration next June, would receive timely and careful consideration. Mr Greenwood has given notice of a bill to amend the law of murder and enable verdicts to be returned of'guilty in the first degree or in the second degree. "PROPS FOR THE GOVERNMENT." KIER HARDIE'S ADVICE TO HE LABOUR PARTY. Received March 14, 9.35 p.m. London, March 14. Mr Kier Hardie, speaking at Swansea, said some arrangement was possible for following the Government to drag out its tolerated existence beyond June, but the Labour Party must not meanwhile be content to simply act as props for the Government, and must be careful lest it buried its ruins. He added, in reference to the threatened contest for Mid-Glamorgan, where Mr Hartshorn, a Socialist, is in the field, that rather than hold seats by thgrace of Liberals or Tories, he prefei-ivd that Labour be without the seats until they won them by their own strength.