BRITISH POLITICS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10010, 5 April 1910, Page 5

BRITISH POLITICS.

A CAMPAIGN. AGAINST HOUSE OF LORDS. MEETINGS IN THE PARKS. United Press Association —by Electric Telegraph Lopy right. Received April 4, y.40 a.m. LONDON, April 3. The new National Democratic League is arranging a campaign against the Lords. The campaign will be chiefly in London and the South of England. Many meetings are to be held in ' the parks on Sundays. LIBERAL AND LABOUR CONFLICTS. ! A CONFERENCE SUGGESTED. ! Rece.ved Apiil 4, 9.40 a.m. ■ LONDON, April 3. Owing to the prospect of other Liberal and Labour conflicts, the Master of Elibarik, (Hon. . W. Murray), Parliamentary Secretary to tlie Treasury, has invited .Liberal M.P.'s representing mining constituencies in South Wales to confer wth him with the object of ! devising a working scheme Strength, he says, lies in unity, which the present settlement scheme aims to destroy.

SPEECH BY MR REDMOND

| THE SITUATION FROM THE j NATIONALIST STANDPOINT. j | Received April 4, 11.15 p.m. | LONDON, April 4. j Mr Redmond, speaking at Tipperary, said the Liberals as a whole were straight upon the question of. the Lords, but it wus useless to pretend that there was not an influential section of the Government who were half-hearted and inclined to be timid. It was acting on disastrous counsels to present no explicit declaration that Mr Asquith would ask the Sovereign for guarantees. The situation would be eased if the Nationalists were assured that thej Government would decline to continue in office in the event of the guarantees being refused. If the Nationalists passed the Budget and the veto resolutions were rejected the Nationalists would be left without a weapon to force Mr Asquith to abide by his Albert Hall declaration. If the third reading of the Budget was reserved until a crisis was precipitated, the Nationalists would then discuss the concession, which they would make. The Budget was tolerable. Mr Lloyd-George had satisfied him weeks ago that amicable arrangements were possible in regard to the spirits license! duties, the land tax, and revaluation.