BRITISH POLITICS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8523, 28 August 1907, Page 5

BRITISH POLITICS.

TAXATION OF FOOD. .Received August 27, 8 a.m. LONDON, August 26. Mr H. Pike Pease, Conservative member for Darlington, speaking at Darlington, said we raised thirty-six millions annually by taxation of food and drink, while Mr Chamberlain's duty on corn would only produce two millions. COLONIAL PREFERENCE.

Received August 27, 8 a.m. LONDON, August 26. Mr Asquith, Chancellor of the Exchequer, speaking at Wiltshire, said that until Mr Balfour and the Unionists plainly declared whether they were prepared to tax corn, meat, the necessaries of life, and industry, in order to secure colonial preference, they could not escape the penalty of the subterfuge and evasion which had lost them the country's confidence.

ENGLISH LAND BILL. Received August 27, 8 a.m. LONDON, August 26. The House of Lords passed the English Land Bill and accepted the House of Commons' rejection of an amendment in the qualification of women, whereby the Lords would have prevented the election of women as Mayors or chairmen of County Councils. DECEASED WIPE'S SISTER BILL. Received August 28, 12.16 a.m. LONDON, August 27. The House of Lords read a third time thegDeceased Wife's Sister Bill by 98 votes to 54. The Archbishop of Canterbury, while stating that the clergy would do their best to ensure the smooth working of the Act, remarked that it was the first time in the history of the Church of England that the law of the State was being brought into direct contradiction to the law of the church.

LAND VALUES OF SCOTLAND BILL, Received August 28, 12.16 a.m. LONDON, August 27. In the House of Lords the land values of Scotland Bill was negatived by 118 votes to 31.