BRITISH POLITICS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXVIII, Issue 7938, 11 January 1906, Page 5

BRITISH POLITICS.

SOME ITEMS. WHAT"MR CHAMBERLAIN WANTS. Received January 10, 7.37 a.rc. LONDON, January 9. Mr Asquith's address to bis constituents insists upon protection and retaliation as two topics of paramount importance. Mr J. Chamberlain, speaking at Wednesbury, said:—"l want as the last act of my political life to do something to te remembered long afterwards." The Right Hon. J. Bryce declared at Aberdeen that Mr Chamberlain had done more to injure the colonies and the Empire than any one in our time. "TIM" HEALEY'S CANDIDATURE. Received January 10, 7.37 a.m. LONDON, January 7. Mr John Redmond, leader of the Nationalist Party, yielding to Cardinal Logue's appeal, advised Nationalists no 1 to oppoae Mr T. Healy for North Louth. Archbishop Walsh also supporrts Mr Healy. MORE FROM MR BALFOUR. LONDON, January 10. Mr Balfour, speaking at Manchester, was skilfully heckled regarding Chinese labour. He declared that Home Rule would be absolutely destructive to the United Kingdom and absolutely ruinous to Ireland. Jt would shatter the Empire. He admitted that he favoured woman's suffrage. EVIDENCE FROM SOUTH AFRICA. Received January 10, 11.48 p.m. CAPETOWN, January 10. A meeting of the Africander Bond, held at Capetown and attended by Messrs Hofmeyer, Merriman, Sauer and Malan, as representatives of the Orangia and Transvaal Boers, cabled to Lord Elgin that his Chinese policy had not caused dissatisfaction or a separatist movement among the Africanders. THE CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER. Received January 10, 11.58 p.m. LONDON, January 10. Mr Asquitn, speaking at Stockton-on-Tees, stated that there was no hope of a great Budget owing to his inheriting Jais predecessor's estimates.

THE RIGHT HON. H. H. ASQUITH, Chancellor of the Exchequer. SPEECH BY THE PRIME MINISTER. Received. January 11, 1 a.m. LONDON, January 10. Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerraan, addressing 4000 people at Liverpool, declared that the Liberals, having the public sense of right on their side would win although all the organised foroes of privilege were against them. He described as baseless Mr Balfour's charges that the Liberals intended to weaken the defences of the Empire, though it was the Government's duty to check the torrent of military expenditure. WHAT LORD ELGIN DID. Reoeived January 10, 10.30 p.m. CAPETOWN, January 10. The Chinese in the Transvaal at the close of the year numbered 47,218, and 2000 were in transit. Lord Selborne warned Lord Elgin that the cancellation of per rnits already issued would lead to a strong outburst of feeling, and Lord Elgin, after consulting the law officers, allowed the permits to stand, throwing the responsibility on the late Government. He declared that no more would be sanctioned until an elected representative Legislature was consulted,

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