BRITISH POLITICS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXVIII, Issue 7954, 1 February 1906, Page 5

BRITISH POLITICS.

THE ELECTIONS

Received January 31, 8.45 a.ni

LONDON, January 3 0. The following Liberal candidates have beenreturned—Flint Boroughs, Mr J. H. Lewis; Ilkeston Division of Derbyshire, Sir Walter Foster.

THE GOVERNMENT AND LABOUR.

Received January 31, 8.45 a.m

LONDON, January 30

The Times says that if Mr Haldane's remarks with regard to purchasing labour ba applied to commodities then Freetrade is gone. (At Edinburgh, on January 29th, Mr Hatdane, in a speech, implied that the State migut take action precluding the notion that labour as a commodity oonld be bought, in the cheapest and aold in the dearest market). PRESS COMMENTS. Received January 1, 8.41 a.m. LONDON, January 30. The Daily Graphic deolares that the Unionists' cruaning defeat is the result of the Conservative revolt against trariff reform. Without questioning the theoretical aoouracy of Mr Chamberlain's position, the journal deolares that bis policy is one of revolution withi oat the justification of urgent necessity. THE AIM OF THE LABOURITES Received January 31, 11.36 p.m. LONDON, January 31. Mr James Keir Hardie, M.P. for MerthyrTydvil, declares that.proteo tion will ba discussed on its merits. The aim of the Labourites is to Visit the Colonies to arrange with Labour a common course of aotion to strengthen the relations between the Motherland and the Colonies, and to take the question of Freetrade versus Protection out of the hands of party politicians; and thus come to an understanding acceptable to the Labour movement, which emphasises the fact chat mechanical inventions are rapidly reduoing the demand for labour and increasing the output of oommo 3ities.

THE STRENGTH OF THE PARTIES.

Received January 31, 13.16 p.m. LONDON, January 31. The strength of the parties up to the present is:— Liberals, 378; Unionists, 155; Nationalists, 83; -Labour, 51.

MORE ABOUT THE LABOUR

MEMBERS.

"THE FINAL STRUGGLE,"

February 1, 12.30 a.m. LONDON, January 31.

' The Labour Representation Gomimitteee state that their candidates •elected to Parliament will sit in opposition, whether Liberals or Unionists are in office.

MrKeir Hardie, inan article in the National Review, emphasises the sudden apparition of the Labour Party, gaunt woe, and grim, knowing neither Liberals nor Conservatives, save aa opponents to be guarded against, and adds that the common peonle of Britain, for weal or woe, like those of the world generally have entered into a final struggle with the upper classes for supremacy. >•