BRITISH POLITICS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10159, 1 December 1910, Page 5

BRITISH POLITICS.

THE SECOND CHAMBER.

(Received November 30 3 9 a.m.) LONDON, November 29. The Times, discussing the political situation, says that a second Chamber having no authority except what it derives from a majority in the Commons would he an absolute farce. Any conceivable Second Chamber having an independent constitutional basis of its own would, says the paper, he better than a chamber liable to ho altered and re-altered at the uncontrolled caprice, of the majority of a chamber it is meant to check.

POLLING ON SATURDAY.

[Received - Last Night, 9.5 o'clock.) LONDON, November 30. "Polling will take place in fifty-five electorates on Saturday, inchiding the various Birmingham, Bristol, Manchester, Salford, Camberwell, Shoreditch and Western divisions; also Grimsby, Darlington and New - ington.

SIR EDWARD GREY.

(Received Last Night, 9.25 o'clock.) Sir Edward Grey, in an address to the electors, said the House of Lords was not the * only danger to the Commons. Without a large measure of devolution the House of Commons could not attend to Imperial affairs and matters concerning the whole country. Sir Edward said that if local powers, resembling those cf the Canadian provinces, were given parts of the United Kingdom, it would not endanger, but secure the supremacy of the Imperial Parliament. A reforms'l 'jecond Chamber was a necessity, Lvit with machinery ensuring tha. J ; it considered that the opinion of ft substantial majority of the Commons should prevail.

A WOMAN CAMPAIGNER

Mr R. V. Harcourt, M.P., is confined to. liis bed. His wife is conducting an electioneering campaign, in the Rossendale division. The Liberals will contest all the London seats except the City H.C.