BRITISH POLITICS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXVIII, Issue 7953, 31 January 1906, Page 5

BRITISH POLITICS.

TUB ELECTIONS

Received January 30, 8.45 a.m. LONDON, January 29. The .following additional returns have bben received:— Mr T. L. Corlett (Independent Conservative) has been re elected for South Down For South Londonderry, Mr f J. Cordon, KO. (Liberal Unionist), has beeu re-elected. Mr Maaaoy (Liberal) has.been returned for Crickdale.

THiii GOVERNMENT AND EDUCATION.

Received January v 3o, 8.45 a.m

LONDON, JaDuary 29.

Mr Louth, Under-Seoretary of the Board of Education, in a letter to The Times, says the Government does not intend to touch the fundamental prinoioles of tbe reform s embodied in the Education Act.

THE UNEMPLOYED.

SPEECH BY MR BRYCE.

Received January 30, 8.35 a.m, LONDON, January 29.

Mr James Bryce, who took, the portfolio of Chief Seoretary for Ireland when Sir Henry CampbellBannerman came into offloei, speaking at Dublin, said he did not think it possible to make provision .that the task of providing work for tbe : unemployed should be an Imperial charge by taxing workers who were possibly on the edge of starvation tor the benefit of others perhaps not equally industrious. THE LIBERAL AND LABOUR PARTIES. WHAT THE LIBERALS HOPE. ■* Received January 30, 8.35 a.nv LONDON, January 29. Mi R. B. Haldane, who was appointed Secretary of State .for War when the Balfour Government resigned, in the course of a speech delivered ac Edinburgh, dwelt on the potent influence of the University. Be suggested that the rise of the Labour .Party was due to a suspicion that the Liberal Party was laakinfe in ideas. Any attempt to tyrannously exercise its status and power would, be st<id result in a reaction, but the Liberals, by the wise exercise of power, combiued with scientific knowledge, hoped to render superfluous the aspirations of a separate Independent Labour Party. Mr Haldane implipd that the State might take action precluding the notion that labour as a commodity could be bought in the cheapest and sold in the dearset market. MR BALFOUR CRITICISED. WILL HE OPENLY JOIN MR CHAMBERLAIN? "TARIFFITES WANT DIRECT ANSWER."

Reoeived January 31, 12.14 a.m. LONDON, January 30.

The Executive of the City Conservative Association has thanked the Hon. A. G. Gibbs for resigning bis seat in Mr Balfour's favour, and has, unanimously, adopted Mr Balfour as its aandidate, after a mo-' mentary protest from Mr H. W. Russell, who objected to a dual leadership, and declared, that Mr Balfour bad never got a hold on the demodraoy and never would. Sir Joseph Lawrence (Tariffite), supporting Mr Balfour, urged, in connection with the question of tariff re■form, that Mr Balfour's views were much more in consonance with Mr Chamberlain's' than .many people supposed. The Morning Post states that upwards of a hundred Tariff Reformers have been elected. The real issue is whether there will be four parties or five in the House of Commons. Will Mr Balfour lead a number of his supporters across the bridge, and, as the leader of a united party, take his place by Mr Chamberlain's side ? Tariff Reformers want a direct answer. .