BRITISH POLITICS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 223, 3 January 1911, Page 5

BRITISH POLITICS

RECOUNTS -DEMANDED. By <!abie—Press Association— Copyright. London, | December 30. Petitions demand recounts at Exeter and West St. Pancras, also' regarding the election of Viscount Lewisham and Captain Morrison, the former for AVest Brouwicfe, and the latter for Nottingham EaSi. PAYMENT OP MEMBERS. London, December 30. The Times' Labor correspondent states that the Government will propose an • honorarium of £SOO for members of the House of Commons, commencing with the opening of the session. A Bill to that > effect will be passed immediately. Some Labor members consider £SOO excessive, and prefer £4OO. A STATEMENT DENIED. London, December 31. The Daily Chronicle denies that the Government is proposing to make the ! salaries of members of the House of Commons £SOO a year. ' MORE PETITIONS. Received 2, 0.45 p.m. London, January 1. . Petitions are being presented in connection with the Mile End and Cluppenham elections.

"NO PEERS CREATED. THE CONSTITUTIONAL PROBLEM. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. Received '3, 12.25 a.m. London, January 2. No peers have been created. The Daily Chronicle states that the ab- 1 sence of new Peers causes surprise.. Either they are deferred till the Corona- ■ tion, when the large honors list will be published, or reserved until an emer-. gencv, possibly necessitating a wholesale creation. The Standard, referring to the constitutional question, emphasises the splen-; dour of the Coronation year and the far-' reaching importance of the. Imperial Con-. ference. Ministers will be well advised if they gauge the intensity of national sentiment and abstain from any action' or omission calculated to mar the prospect. The Times, in a strenuous article, states ; Ithat if ever there was a case for settlement by consent, it is this. Everyone can see it, except a small number of violent politicians. Our self-governing dominions and foreign observers alike see it with extraordinary unanimity. The issue is too serious and the nation, too evenly divided for coercion of the slightly smaller by the slightly larger half.