BRITISH POLITICS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10014, 9 April 1910, Page 5

BRITISH POLITICS.

A RUMOUR. GOVERNMENT WILL NOT SAVE A DEADLOCK. Received April 8, 10 a.m. LONDON, April 7. The "Morning Leader," Liberal, referring to a lobby rumour that the Government does not intend to save a deadlock between the two Houses by an appeal to the Throne states that it would be better for the Government to break up and be re formed than for the country to be driven into another aimless dissolution. AN UPROAR IN THE COMMONS. FIRST VETO RESOLUTION PASSED. Received April 8. 10 p.m. LONDON, April 8. There was an excited uproar in the Commons, when the first veto resolution was voted by 309 votes to 237 Mr G. Cave, K.C , Union : st, moved an amendment in favour of a j 'int session in the event of difficulties between the two Houses, re'aling to money Bills. Mr Lloyd-Geore declared that it was impossible with the present disparity of parties in the Lords. It was true that the Australian Houses sit together in the event of differences over financial matters, but they were electen by the same constituents. It was unfair to say that his halfpenny land tax was coDfisca- j tory. A similar tax in New Zealand and New South Wales had the effect of taxing the land out of existence, not because it transferred the land bodily to the Stat?, but because it was no longer worth the owners' while to hold up the land except for ttie purpose of using, it.