BRITISH POLITICS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8524, 29 August 1907, Page 5

BRITISH POLITICS.

Evicted tenants bill. Received August 28, 7.17 a.m. LONDON, August 27. In the House of Commons, the Right Hon. A. BimJl (Chief Secretary* for Ireland) strongly deprecated the" House of Lords' amendment of - the Evicted Tenants' Bill, which said that no new tenant or planter who -was a bona fide cultivator should be compulsorily ousted. This meant a triumph for Lord Clanricarde, and deprived the Bill of its greatest value —namely, its pacificatory mess- j age to Ireland; but, yielding to | superior force, and with a view to j saving the Bill, he asked the House to assent to the amendment and also accept the limit. for reinstateds at 2,000, but to resist the House of Lords' substitution of the word "compensation" for the expression "'fair niarket value." Mr J. E. Redmond (Leader of the Irish Party), declared that representatives of the landlords in both Houses had deliberately wrecked Ireland's hopes of a settlement. They desired to cause turmoil in Ireland in the •winter, and added: "So long as the planters on Lord Clanricarde's estate or elsewhere are left in possession, there can be no end of the land war. When Ireland was tranquil the Unionists were always obdurate. The moral was: If the Irish desired a settlement in 1908 they must close their ranks and engage in a movement sufficiently strong and menacing to overcome the landlords' oppo-! sition. He admitted/that the Bill was not worthless inasmuch as it contained the principle of the compulsory acquisition of untenanted land, but it -would fail to settle the evicted tenants question. Mr Balfour r protested against Mr Redmond's direct incitement to disorder, and his' aspersions on the landlords.: The House endorsed Mr Birrell's recommendations, the Nationalists at the outset of the divisions quitting the, House. Received August 29, 12.50 a.m. LONDON, August 28. The differences between the House ,of Lords and the House of Commons (Over the Evicted Tenants Bill have -been adjusted on the basis cabled , yesterday. """

.SCOTTISH LAND VALUES , BILL. k. —■ Eeceived August 28, 9.27 a.m. LONDON, August 27. Tfee House of Lords rejected the Scottish Land Values Bili bctause ■» there was no tim? to consider it, since prorogation takes place to-morrow. Lord Roberts objected to land va2uers being made into sandwichmen for Henry George. Earl Cawdor insisted that the Government was obviously pursuing a "filling up the Up" policy. Lord Tweedmouth (First Lord of the Admiralty) replied that the Bill simply aimed at'obtaining a" fair valuation of land. ' ) ENGLISH SMALL HOLDINGS BILL. Received August 29, 12.50 a.m. LONDON, August 28. The English £mall Holdings Bill has emerged from the House 6f Lords substantially in the form the Government desired."