BRITISH POLITICS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8353, 8 February 1907, Page 5

BRITISH POLITICS.

THE HOUSE. OF LORDS. Received February 7, 7.45 a.m. LONDON, February 6. i Sir W. S. Robson, Liberal, member for South' Shields, advocates a strong non-hereditary element in the House of Lords. Mr Keir Hardie, Labour member for Merthyr Tydvil, in the course of an address, said three Labour Bills passed last year, instead of becoming weaker like other in their passage through the House of Commons, had been strengthened, because Labour was free to fight a Liberal or a Tory Government, as circumstances dictated. Received February 7, 10.48 p.m. LONDON, February 7. The Times infers that Mr Winston Churchill's speech and attitude at Leeds are those for whom he was speaking, and adds that the prospects for the Colonial Conference are brighter. Nothing in the speech excludes an agreement on the essential principle of preference. If it is worth having t in return for an expenditure on common defence an extension might be well worth purchasing by equivalent, IN HONOUR OF MR BRYCE. Received February 7, 11.6 p.m. LONDON, February. 7. A Pilgrims' Club dinner, in honour of Mr James Bryce, Ambassador to the United States, was given at the Savoy Hotel. Mr Whitelaw Reid, American Ambassador, .' and Mr Bryce delivered notable speeches, tracing the growth of the mutual pride and brotherhood between Britain and America. Mr Bryce remarked that peace with one State helped peace with others and was a guarantee of worldwide tranquility, but one peace should De the closest, namely, those of our blood and speech. That was the aim of every one from the British King, Premier, and Foreign Secretary to the humblest. It was the sentiment shared by Australia and Canada and the whole Empire. The message he had to deliver was one of true sympathy in weal or woe—a message of enduring friendship between Great Britain and America. l The company included Sir H. M. Durand, Mr R. B. Haldane, and the Japanese Ambassador. Lord Roberts, who presided, mentioned that cables had been received from the Earl of Aberdeen, Mr J. L. Choate, and the Pilgrims' Club in America.