GREAT BRITAIN.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 145, 14 November 1914, Page 5

GREAT BRITAIN.

INDIAN LOYALTY. PARLIAMENTARIANS IN THE " FOBCES. London,* November 12. The process of passing resolutions affirming complete loyalty to the British cause proceeds steadily throughout India.

Mr. Asquith, in the House of Commons, said it was necessary to introduce a Bill to make regular the action of certain members of the Government in taking offices of profit by accepting commissions in the army or navy. Mr. Swift MacNeill asked whether the Government would remove the i jakes of Cumberland and Albany from tiie British and Irish peerages.

FOB NEW ZEALANDERS. London, November 12. Lord Plunket presided over a meeting of the New Zealand Expeditionary f ,mmittee. The Hon. T. Mackenzie anj. >unced that Sir George Pragnell had

ven the committee the use of his firm's 1 w residential club, with 150 bedrooms, ; Blackheath, aa a convalescent homo i >i New Zealanders. The War Office prodea the necessary hospital accommoual -on.

Mr. A. Henderson assured the Government that the Laborites would support it to secure the unity of the Empire. Messrs Henderson and Long warmly criticised the War Office for mismanagement and delay in paying allowances to the wives of soldiers and sailors. This had had a serious effect on recruiting. ATHLETIC FIXTURES CANCELLED. Received 13, 8.20 pjn. London, November 12. Owing to the war the county cricket fixtures for 1915 have been postponed one die. The Northern Union League committee has decided that it is impossible to invite the New South Wales League to lour Britain in 1915-16.