IMPERIAL POLITICS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 379, 3 May 1910, Page 5

IMPERIAL POLITICS.

TAKING A REST. THE LIBERALS' OPPORTUNITY. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. London, May 1. Mr. Lloyd-George and Mr. T. P. O'Connor are motoring together through France and Italy. Lord Morley, speaking at the Academy, stated that the Government hai.; determined to give the country a month's respite from speech-making. Lord Crewe, speaking at the Eighty Club, said the Liberals would make an irreparable mistake if they threw away the opportunity of altering the composition of the House of Lords. Lord Rosefbery's and Lord Lansdowne's schemes of reform would finally destroy the only existing constitutional stileguard, namely, the power of, as a last resort, creating new peers. * LABOR PARTY'S PROPAGANDA. TWO THOUSAND MEETINGS ARRANGED FOR. Received May 2, 10.15 p.m. London, May 2. The Independent Labor iparty is arranging to hold two thousand meetings weekly during the summer. The speakers will visit every town and village and deliver addresses on the right to work, the abolition of pauperism, and public ownership of land, railways, and mines. "LORDS MUST BE ABOLISHED." ALSO THE MONARCHY AND CHURCH Received 'May 2, 10.15 p.m. London, May. 2. Mr. Will Thome, M.P., speaking at Nottingham, declared that the Lorns ■would not easily be abolished. He believed the Lords, the Monarchy, and the Church must go at the same time, as they were so dovetailed together.