BRITISH POLITICS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8464, 14 June 1907, Page 5

BRITISH POLITICS.

EVICTED TENANTS BILL. Received.June 13, 8.33 a.m. LONDON, June 12. The Government's Evicted Tenants Bill provides for the reinstatement of two thousand tenants, or one-fourth of .the total applicants. A BY-ELECTION. Received June 13, 9.15 a.m. LONDON, June 12. The by-election for Rutlandshire resulted — Lyon (Liberal) ... 1362 (The by-election is caused by the .death.of.the Right Hon. G. H. Finch, Conservative, who had represented Rutlandshire since 1867. At the last elections Mr Finch's majority over the Liberal candidate was 483. This time the Conservative candidate's majority is 851.) THE UNREST IN IRELAND. Received June 13, 11.13 p.m. LONDON, June 13. Agitators in Ireland, propagating Lord JDenman'.e ..remark that cattle driving was not a serious crime, caused the failure of one prosecution. Mr Birre.ll was ; greatly heckled in the House of Commons, where he declared that the Government expected owners to protect their own cattle. The action vof the police was merely an adjunct to such protection. He declined to say what the owners' steps should be.. The police had no evidence that the surrender of farms was due to the pressure of the Irish League. The Times saya that ithe Nationalists successfully appealing to the agrarian passions of the peasants over a growing area in Connaught and Munster, and urging them to defy the law, will force the Government to choose between coercion and anarchy.