IMPERIAL POLITICS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 140, 9 December 1911, Page 5

IMPERIAL POLITICS

TILE INSURANCE BILL. COMPENSATING DOCTORS. By Cable—Press Association —Copyright. London, December 7. Doctors have subscribed £150,000 to compensate doctors for losses sustained through adhering to the policy of the .Medical Association in connection with the Insurance Bill. The Insurance Bill passed its first reading in the House of Lords. The members for Walsall and Rutland took a referendum of their constituents ou the Insurance Bill, and in both cases it was rejected. MOKE PROTESTS. Received 8, 11 p.m. London, December 8. The friendly societies have petitioned the Honse of Lords to amend the Insurance Bill to enable the pay for sickness benefit to be given from the first day'* illness, instead of the fourth. Tho British Constitution Association urges the House of Lords to reject or to submit the Bill to a poll .of the people. THE DECLARATION OF LONDON. London, December 7. In committee on the Naval Prize Bill, Mr. Athevv Jones moved to gmit clause 281. Mr. B. E. Peto, Unionist member for Devizes, commented on the fact that Hayti and San Domingo were represented in the International Court, while Australia and New Zealand were not deemed worthy of representation. The clause was an insult to the dominions. HOME RULE. UNIONISTS TO OPPOSE TO "LAST GASP." Received 8, 11 p.m. London, December 8. Mr. Bonar Law, at Bootle, emphasised the utter impossibility of Home Rule being carried, as part oi the Liberals had made a corrupt political bargain. He remarked that although to grant Home Rule, from a party standpoint, would be an advantage to the Unionists, inasmuch as the Nationalists were solidly against them, the Unionists were determined to oppose Home Rule to the last gasp. When the time came there would be no shrinking. Strong action was required to defeat one of the most ignoble conspiracies ever formed against the liberties of frceborn men.