BRITISH POLITICS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXVIII, Issue 7932, 4 January 1906, Page 5

BRITISH POLITICS.

I THE EDUCATION QUESTION. MR EIIiRELL'S VIEWS. Received January 4, 1.3 a.m. LONDON, January 3,. Mr Augustine Birrell, Piesident of the Board of Education, speaking at North Biistol, said that there would be no settlement of the Education question until every public elemetary school was under complete popular control. UOiVjE RULE. EARL OF ABEROOKN'S VIEWS. Received January 4, 1.3 a.m. LONDON, January 3. The Earl of Abercorn, presiding at a great demonstration at Belfast, said that the Home Rule danger was most imminent. They were determined that, come what might, they would not live under the yoke of Home Rule. The Unionists of Ire land were unable to and did not dare to entrust their liberties to the present Government. The latter might put an enemy in every commanding position, undermine every defensive work, slacken tho administrative control, and reduce the country to a condition wherein a re ( fusal of tho larger policy could be represented as having become tantamount to civil war. MR BALFOUR'S ELECTION ADDRESS. Received January 3, 11.57 p.m. LONDON, January 3. Mr Balfour, in his election address vindicated the Unionist policy in regard to domestic, foreign, and oolonial affairs. The new Government were known in the electorates chiefly as critics. They criticised sometimes unscrupulously and sometimes perversely. Be denounced their programme in regard to Home Ruleas"destruotion and spoilation." He emphasised the differences dividing the confederacy of parties wuereon the Cabinet depended. THE TARIFF QUESTION. COB DEN CLUB PRESIDENT SPEAKS. Reaeived January 3, 11.57 p.m. Lv)NDON, January 3. Lord Wei by, in his address as President of the Cobden Club, emphasised the danger of any return to a system of intricate and provocative tariffs. He recommended a sweeping Freetrade majority lest the Protectionist agitation should distract the nation's counsels for years. WELSH DISESTABLISHMENT. AN ESSENTIAL WITH THE GOVERNMENT. Receivod January 3, 11.56 p.m. LONDON, January 3. Mr Lloyd-George, speaking at Carnarvon, said that he had Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman's authority to announce that Welsh disestablishiuent, advocated since 1888, was still an essential part of the Government's programme. SPEECH BY MR CHAMBERLAIN Received January 3, 11.56 p.m. LONDON, January 3. Mr J. Chamberlain, addressing his constituents, said that more had been done in the way of social reform during the past decade than in any previous similar period. As regards the main issues of the election there were two sides. The Unonists policy, on the negative side, was resistance to Home Rule. A Liberal majority would mean that the Government would be wholly Mr Redmond's. The positive side was fiscal reform. He advocated a duty on luxuries and imported manufactures, not on raw materials. EARL PERCY AND HOME RULE Received January 4, 1.3 a.m. LONDON, Jaauary 3. Earl Pery, in his election address, denounced the promise of a stealthy attempt to attain Home Rule, which had been twice refused when urged by Gladstone's candour and courage.