BRITISH POLITICS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8298, 29 November 1906, Page 5

BRITISH POLITICS.

AN INTERESTING ELECTION. Received Novemtei 28, 8.30 a.i>. LONDON, November 27. Mr Balfour, in supporting; the candidature of Mr fj. Foster fcraaeV, the well known author aud traveller, speaking at Huddersfleld,, declared that the Government's policy at Home and with the colonies was disastrous to the welfare of the community. Mr Winston Churchill, UnderSecretary for the Colonies, 'who is supporting the Liberal oandidate, said the result of the eleotiou would have an important effect on the political questions of the hour. If the Government lived, it hoped to give people access to the land, and to abolish for ever the veto of the House of Lords. The Liberals would not promise, but would give old age pensions. Miss Pankhurst, Mrs MnrfceU, and other suffragettes are opposing Mr Shirwell with amazing vigour. EDUCATION BILL. ATTACK ON THE EPISCOPAL OLIGARCH?. Received November 28, 8.30 a.m. LONDON, November 27. Dr C'ifford, the well-known Free Church clergyman, in a letter to the press, violently assails the episcopal oligarchy in the House of Lords. He declares that the amendments to the iSdueation Bill must be re jected, or the Nonconformists may resort to passive resistance to an extent that would embarrass the Government. ;'j The writer also .arges the oreation of three hundred Radical peers on the formation of a Second Chamber on colonial lines. deceived November 28, 10.30 p.m. LONDON, November 28. The Hon. Arthur Aoland, presiding at an emergency meeting of the general committee of the National Libernl Federation, at Caton Hall, Westminster, urged the House of Commons not towwaves v e a day re-debating any Kill; but to return the Bills to the House of Lords one by one without debate. Sir Henry Campbell - Bannerman wrote stating that the Education Bill as amended was of uo vaety? them or the country. It was apparent that the House of JiOrds presumed to know the country's mind better than the country or 1 tna House of Com mons did. "Of one thing you can rest assured," wrote the Premier, "we oan have ho tampering with the main principles of the Bill. If within those limitß, and without injury to education, an arrangement is possible, well and good, if not, it is for us to see this in and other questions a way is found whereby the wishes of the country are made to prevail." It was resolved with enthusiasm to urge the rejection of the amendments aud the abolition during the present Parliament of House of Lords' veto. . PLURAL VOTING BILL. PROTEST AGAINST THE CLOSURE. Received November 28, 8.47ja.m. LONDON, November 27. In the House of Commons Mr Salfour protested against Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman's applying the closure to the Plural Noting Bill, which the ex-Premier said was in reality a great disfranchising Bill avowedly aimed at a small section of yje House.