IMPERIAL POLITICS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 60, 29 July 1912, Page 5

IMPERIAL POLITICS.

ANONYMOUS JOURNALISM. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. Recoired 28, 5.5 p.m. London, July 27. Lord Morley, presiding at a dinner to Sir E. T. Cooke, and reviewing the changes in journalism, found that even anonymity was apparently being deposed. In tones of surprise, he said that he had been informed that even Australia had legislated that prior to an election, every article should be signed. It was, he said, the prime duty of the press to cope with and minimise and assuage international suspicions, instead of warming them into a hateful fire. THE TEA DUTY. London, July 26. Mr. Fell's amendment to reduce the duty on tea grown within the Empire by a penny a pound was rejected by 821 to 156. A further motion, to rediwe tha duty oh all tea by twopence a pound, was rejected by 823 to 183.

A BY-ELECTION. London, July 28. •Mr. Hewart, a barrister, has been selected as the Liberal candidate for NorthWest Manchester. Sir Randolph Baker's (U.) diyislon respecting the House meeting for business on Monday gave the Government a majority of three.

THE INSURANCE ACT. London. July 2(i. Dr. MacLpan, chairman of the representative body, at the annual dinner of the British Medical Assiciation, said the rupture of negotiations did not mean the permanent boycotting of thp Act, i ninny of the factors in which were as yet undetermined.