IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 264, 17 March 1911, Page 5

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT

THE NORTH LOUTH ELECTION. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. London, March 15. Mr. Healy has withdrawn from his candidature for North Louth, alleging the danger of disturbances not affecting the candidate whom the disturbers support unless proof of agency is established. Mr. Augustine Roche (Nationalist), who was defeated for the Cork seat at last election, has been elected unopposed, Mr. Hazleton's election having been declared void owing to irregularities. AN EVASIVE ANSWER. • ; ~ London, March 15. Questioned by Mr. Neville, Unionist member for Wigan, as to whether the Government approved of Lord Chelmsford's refusal to remove the deadlock in Queensland in 1907 by swamping the Upper House, on the ground that the question should be submitted to a general election, Mr. Harcourt, Secretary of State for the Colonics, refused to reply, saying he did not think the House Of Commons was entitled to hear Lotd Chelmsford's confidential communications. CONTINGENT DREADNOUGHTS. ! ' " London, March 15. ' Mr. H. Lees Smith, Liberal member for Northampton, has given notice of motion that, Mr. McKenna, First Lord of the Admiralty, was guilty of a breach of the confidence of the House of Comnons in having the four contingent Dreadnoughts kid down. ARMY DEBATE. " GENERAL HAMILTON'S BOOK. A FRONTAL ATTACK. London, March 15. General Pole Carew, Unionist member for Bodmin, attacked General lan Hamilton's book on compulsory service. He said he had had considerable experience of Sir lan Hamilton, and his book was like him, being flighty and unreliable. It had been written chiefly to sell and for advertisement, and, incidentally, for the satisfaction of the Secretary for iWar. Mr. Haldane indignantly protested that the book had not been written to order, and said that Sir lan Hamilton's chivalry was above anything of thai sort. !>■-'*' Received 17, 12.5 a.m. '. London, March 16. ' In the army debate, Mr. Hamar Greenwood, Liberal member for Sunderland, referring to General lan Hamilton's bo9k, considered that publication of the opinions of a salaried officer under Mr. Haldane was inconsistent with the best interests of the service, and it was no compliment to the intelligence of Mr. Haldane or his supporters that he should lean on a subordinate of his own de-; partment. Mr. Churchill introduced a comprehensive Mines Bill. MR. HALDANE'S REPLY. Received 17, 1.5 a.m. London, March. 10. Mr. Haldane considered the advantages of General Hamilton's publication outweighed its disadvantages, and he successfully resisted Mr. Holt's amendment for a reduction of 15.000 men. He promised an extra day for a genera! discussion on the report stage. THE LONDON STREET ARAB. WORK FOR THE IMPERIAL CONFERENCE. Received 17, 1 a.m. London, March 10. The Earl of Shaftesbury's Bill prohibiting street trading by boys under seventeen years, and girls under eighteen years, was read a second time. Mr. Harcourt, in reply to questions, said the Government proposed that the Imperial Conference should discuss the enforcement, anywhere in the Empire, of a commercial award given in another part of the Empire: also the extension of the Imperial postal order scheme.