BRITISH POLITICS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 986, 4 March 1910, Page 5

BRITISH POLITICS.

JEERING REMARKS. UNIONIST PRESS AND THE BUDGET. Received March 3, 9 a.m. LONDON, March 2. Unionist papers jeeringly ask what is to become of the Budget, and protest against the Government's refusal to adopt Mr Austen Chamberlain's suggestions to pass income tax resolutions forthwith. Speaking in the House of Commons, Mr Austen Chamberlain stated it may be May or June before last year's taxes are collected. Mr Lloyd-George, Chancellor of the Exchequer, replied that the chaos was due to unprecedented action by the Lords. The Government scheme had to be considered as a whole, therefore it was impossible to introduce the resolutions earlier.

ELECTED UNOPPOSED. Received March 3, 10 a.m. LONDON, March 2. Mr Maurice Eealy, Independent Nationalist. wa& elected unopposed for North-East Cork. Mr E. J. Soares was re-elected unopposed for Barnstable. (The 'North-East Cork seat was rendered vacant by the decision of Mr William O'Brien, Leader of the Indsp3ndent Nationalists, to sit for Cork City, which constituency had also elected him. Mr Soares had to seek re-election on account of his being made a Junior Lord of the Treasury. He has sat for the Barnstable Division of Devonshire since 1900).

SPEECH BY MR HEaLY.. Received March 2, 10.30 p.m. LONDON, March 3. Mr Maurice Healy, in a speech to bis constituents, said that Mr Redmond, armed with a cracked blunderbuss, was ready to vote against the Government, when every regular opposition would refrain, but he was careful in ether circumstances to fire the cracked weapon at Mr O'Brien. He taunted Mr Redmond with resting on an academical resolution, which the Lords would light their pipes with. The Redmondites and Radicals would then return to their electorates to meet a sounder drubbing than before. Mr Redmond, acknowledging American contributions to the party fund, predicts that a general election will take place before many weeks are past. The supplementary estimates amount to £689,100, including .£45,700 for preliminary work for four contingent Dreadnoughts, which will be laid down by the first of April. The supplementary estimates were agreed to after a short discussion between Mr A, H. Lee, j Lwd Charles Beresford and Mr Mc- i Kenna.' The Unionist leaders in the Lords intend to introduce proposals regarding the reform of the House of Lords, firstly, by declaratory resolutions. I It is now stated that the navy i estimates total £41,000,000.