BRITISH POLITICS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8378, 12 March 1907, Page 5

BRITISH POLITICS.

A BY-ELECTION,

Received March 11, 8.49 a.m. LONDON, March 10,

Mr Redmond Barry, Solicitor-Gen-eral for Ireland, has been elected for North Tyrone, polling 3,013, while Mr Henry (Unionist), polled 3,006. (The vacancy was caused through the elevation of Serjeant W. H. Dodd to the King's Bench, Ireland. This election, and the previous one at the general elections, provide something of a record. Mr D. Henry, K.C., Liberal Unionist, was defeated by Serjeant Dodd by 9 votes, and is now defeated by 7 votes, and at the present rate of progression should get in in about 7 years.)

HOUSE OF LORDS REFORM,

Received March 11, 8.21 a.m. LONDON, March 10

Mr Winston Churchill, UnderSecretary for the Coloies, in an article in The Nation, the new Liberal newspaper, on the reform of the House of Lords, suggests that members of the Privy Council and Peers should be eligible to sit in the House of Lords, the Crown, by the advice of Ministers, summoning from 150 to 250 to sit in each Parliament.

These only would be eligible to

legislate. All Peers who held Ministerial office should be summoned ex officio.

WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE BILL,

Received March 11, 8.21 a.m. LONDON, March 10

The Suffragists blame Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman's weakness, and declare his speceh was a pitiful mockery.

The apathy of the Radicals towards the Women's Suffrage Bill is attributed to the women's adverse influence on the London County Council elections.

(At the London County Council elections the Progressives were routed, and only three Labour candidates were returned).