IMPERIAL POLITICS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 180, 9 November 1910, Page 5

IMPERIAL POLITICS.

UNIONIST RESERVATIONS. By Cable —Press Association —Copyright. London, November o. The Premier will consult the Cabinet regarding the Unionist reservations and concerning the proposed Joint Committee to deal with the disagreement between the two Houses of Parliament. The reservations apply specially to Home Rule. Received 8, 10.55 p.m. London, November 8. If Cabinet agrees to the reservations, the conference will have been successful. In the event of their rejection, it is still open to the Unionists to consider whether and to what extent they are able to yield in details.

ELECTORAL REFORM. London, November 7. The council of the National Liberal Federation met at Hull and drafted a resolution approving the proposal that elections should take place on one day, also the payinent of members and a second ballot.

SPEECH BY THE PREMIER,

Received 8, 11.40 p.m. London, November 28. Mr. Asquith, speaking at Glasgow, said there was nothing more remarkable in our constitutional progress than the shifting of relations from time to time between municipalities and the State, and the practical reconciliation of the supreme dominating influence of the State with the free evolution of local autonomy. This was one of the greatest achievements of statesmanship in the nineteenth century, and the idea of a great partnership of State and municipalities was capable of wider applications in even wider spheres. A CRISIS IMMINENT. NEWSPAPER PRONOUNCEMENTS. Received 8, 11.40 p.m. London, November 8.

The Daily News deprecates the idea of a compromise and apprehends that the present situation of the conference points to a crisis. The News recommends in the event of a deadlock that the election take place in January, and adds: 'Apparently the Unionist leaders are willing to limit the veto except as regards the socalled constitutional changes." The Standard states that prospects of agreement are now much more favorable.

TARIFF REFORM CAMPAIGN. Received 9, 1 a.m. London, November 8. Mr. G. Wyndham, at Manchester, and Mr. Austen Chamberlain, at Wigan, have inaugurated a great tariff reform campaign in Lancashire.