BRITISH POLITICS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9676, 15 December 1909, Page 5

BRITISH POLITICS.

LORDS V. COMMONS. "SLAMMING THE DOORS." LORDS AND TARIFF REFORM. United Press association—By Electric Telegraph Copyright. Received December 14, 8.50 a.m. LONDON, December 13. Mr Joseph Chamberlain, in a letter to the Manchester and Salford electors, urging tariff reform, says: "I hope we shall no longer slam the door in the colonies' face, believing that fiscal reform will bring our kinsmen across the water closer, and that they, at all events, will be quite ready for the change."

A SINGIiE CHAMBEK MAN. Received December 14, 8.50 a.m. LONDON, December 13. Mr Keir Bardie, Labour M.P., speaking at Merthry-Tydvil, said he was a single Chamber man. If the House of Commons made mistakes, let the people who created it call it to account Mr J. A. Pease. Chief Liberal Whip, speaking at Saffron-Waldon, said threats had been made' in the. constituency, and in some crimes, he had been informed, tftiim notice wouWbe given to tenant farmers and laboured/that if they voted, for him they vyould be ejected from their holdings and employ.-, •ment Any agent bringing such pressure to liable tq penalties under thje Corrupt Practices Act. :t

Messrs Burt and Penwick, Labour members Mr Morpeth and Wansack respectively, will seek re-election as Liberals. Received December 14, 9.35 p m. \ LONDON, December 14 The Hon. John Burns, speaking at Battersea. dwelt on the Government's achievements on behalf of tne workers, and declared that the state should prohibit married women from working. , Mr R. B. Haldane, Secretary of State for War, speaking at Dunbar, gaid that the taxation of necessaries led to socialism. He was in favour of Home Rule and women suffrage.