BRITISH POLITICS.

Taranaki Daily News, 20 March 1922, Page 5

BRITISH POLITICS.

SECRETORY FOR INDIA. DISCOUNT PEEL APPOINTED. I .LORD DERBY’S ATTITUDE, By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received March 19, 5.5 p.m. London, March 18. Viscount Peel succeeds the Right Hon. E. 8. Montagu as Secretary of State for India. Lord Derby, addressing the Junior Carlton Club, said he had declined the offer of the Secretaryship of India because he believed he could be of more service to his party and the country outside the Government than inside. He had not the slightest doubt that he would be able to support the programme which Mr. Chamberlain had promised to put before the Conservatives prior to the next election. He intended to give unswerving loyalty and unstinted energy to support the Conservative leaders, whether inside or outside the Cabinet. The Right Hon. Stanley Baldwin urged the Conservatives to hold together, so that when the election comes they could fling the whole weight of their influence into the same scale.— Aus*-N-Z. Cable Assn. INDEPENDENT LIBERALS. THEIR POLICY STATED OPPOSED TO COALITION. Received March 19, 5.5 p.m. London, March 18. Viscount Gladstone (who is a son of the famous W. E. Gladstone), in a letter to the Press on the re-union of the Liberal Party, states the position of the Independent Liberals is: “We are . a, party in being, founded on definite I principles, which condemns absolutely the policy of the Coalition Government since 1918, and that we offer an alternative Government to the country. Reunion involves either acceptance by Mr. Lloyd George and his Cabinet colleagues of the condemnation of their own policy or the surrender by independent Liberals of their whole’ position. We have no intention of surrendering that position, so the other alternative rests with Mr. Lloyd George."—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. INTERESTING BY-ELECTION. WAR INCIDENT RECALLED. Received March 19, 5.5 p.m. London. March 17. The most interesting pending byelection is at Chertsey. vacant through the death of Sir Donald Mac-master. Coalition-Unionist. The candidates are Sir Phillip Richardson, Conservative and Unionist, who led the British riflemen to Australia, and General Gough, a Wee Free. The latter’s campaign consists principally of a defence of the Fifth Army, owing to the charge that he is seeking to enter Parliament chiefly through a personal grudge against the Government, which recalled him from the Western front. —Aus.-N.Z. Cable A&»n. A MEMBER RETIRES. Received March 19. 5J> p.m. London. March 18. air Frederick Young (Coalition-Union-ist) announces that he does not intend to atand again for Swindon at the general election. INVERNESS BY-ELECTION. Received March 19, LI .30 p.m. London, March 18. The Inverness by-election resulted: — Sir Murdoch MacDonald (CoalitionUnionist) 8340. Livingston (Independent Liberal) 8024. The figures at the general elections in 1913 were: T. B. Morison (Coali-tion-Liberal) 7991, G. J. Bruce (Highland Land League) 2930. MORE BY-ELECTIONS. London, March 17. The by-election at Cambridge, renderfed necessary owing to the resignation of Sir Eric Geddes, resulted:— gir Douglas Newton (Coalition Conservative) 10,897 Dalton (Labor) G. H. Morgan (Wee Free) .... 4.nQB [At the general election the voting Sir Eric Geddes (Coalition Unionist), 11,553; Rev. T. R. Williams (Labor), 37-89.]