IMPERIAL POLITICS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 93, 28 July 1910, Page 5

IMPERIAL POLITICS.

JUSTICES OF THE PEACE. By Cable—Press Association.— Copyright London, July m. In the House of Lords Lord Loreburn announced that future appointments of i Justices of the Peace would be non-1 political. THE JAPANESE TARIFF. London, July 21 Mr. Buxton, in reply to ques.i.j-is, said that the Government was fui.y ahve to the detrimental effects of the new Japanese tariff. Sir E. Grey was communicating with Japan on the subject. THE COPYRIGHT BILL. \ AN IMPERIAL AGREEMENT. London, July 27. Mr. Sidney Buxton's Copyright Bill i lias been read- a first time. The agreement reached with the dominions regarding the treatment of copyrights provides that the author is the only person whose consent is neeess&ry to enable a newspaper in one country to borrow from a newspaper in another any jjerial story, stale, or literary, scientific, •r artjstic article. Dramatists and- musicians are better protected thau before the Blue Book on the Copyright Conference was published. " DUCHIES OF LANCASTER AND 1 CORNWALL. London, July 27. 'Mr. Barnes' amendment proposing the transfer of the revenues of the Duchies of Lancaster and Cornwall to ute Exchequer in return ior additional grants was rejected toy 221 to 51'. The Civil List was* then read a second time. INFANTILE MORTALITY. London, July 27. Mr., Sidney Buxton has issued Dr.. Kewsholme's report on the infantile mortality of England and Wales. This is the first systematic attempt to investigate the subject. A QUESTION DEPRECATED. •Received July 27, 9 p.m. London, July 27. , 'Mr. Asquith, replying with warmth, most strongly deprecated mention of the sentence of twenty years on Franz von Veltheim in 1008 for demanding money with, threats from Solly Joel, and of the request .that the sentence be reduced by five years.