VARIOUS CABLES.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10458, 24 October 1911, Page 3

VARIOUS CABLES.

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BRITISH POLITICS

ADDRESS BY MR ASQUITH

(Received October 23, 8.50 a.m.)

LONDON, October 22

The Right Hon. H. H. Asquith, speaking at East Fife before the Liberal Association, said the Lords' rejection of the Budget was their death warrant.

Their place would shortly be taken by a body relatively smaller and relatively more impartial, which were functions appropriate to a' second Chamber in any democratic country. The country had thus confidently instructed its representatives, and the year 1911, jn which, those instructions were given effect to, would live in history as the year of the greatest advance in popular government since the Reform Bill.

I He admitted that the second part of the Insurance Bill, dealing with unemployment, was experimental, and not final. He would scrupulously, safeguard the interests of the minority. Home Rule would likewise deal liberally with vested interests, as | would also Welsh Disestablishment. I THE INSURANCE BILL. (Received October 23, 8.30 a.m.) LONDON, October 22. The Right Hon. D. Lloyd-George, speaking in London, said there had been much give and take over the National lasurano Bill, ibut it was now absolutely safe. Incidentally he stated ' that power would be given to compel owners of insanitary dwellings to pay for excessive sickness caused thereby. Municipalities responsible for insanitary conditions would also have to pay similarly. "We shall never be rid of slums," said Mr Lloyd-'George, "until we make them a bad speculation." i MR BALFOUR AT EDINBURGH. | INSURANCE BILL. CRITICISED. (Received October 23, 9 a.m.) LONDON, Octboer 22. Mr A. J. Balfour, Leader of the Opposition, speaking at the ' Working { Man's Club in Ediniburgh, said he would teach, iihe rising generation, that, after national defence, they should place Imperial unity, and after that social reform. He charged the Radicals,of to-day with abandoning the theories of earlier generations, and introducing simpler theories of their own. If they examined the speeches of Mr Lloyd-George, for instance, they would find that he always measures the benefits accruing to one class by the amount taken from the pockets of another class. The worst that could! be said against tiie Insurance Bill was the Prime Minister's declaration of general contributory schemes. State assistance might do for Germany, but was unsuited to the national genus of Britons. The Bill provided for the lusty wage-earner, hut the abjectly-poor received scant treatment. Mr Balfour condemned the Government • proposal for closuring the Government in order to pass the Bill befor the end of the year. UNVEILING A BUST. ''; (Received Ootdber 23; 8.45'.a.ida,) PAMS,-October 22. Sir F. Bertie, British, -Ambassador, unveiled the bust of the late King Ed- " ward in the British Chamber of Comsmerce. n '-> Sir G. Reid (Australia) and Sir W. Hall-Jones (New , Zealand) were amongst those present. The'members of the Chamber gave a .banquet in honour of the occasion, at which Mr Samuel, replying to the toast of tihe British.Cabinet, said England rejoiced at the mutual settlement of the Moroccan difficulty, with free commercial access for all nations. Britain never aspired to embroil one country with another. Her ambition was to promote international goodwill and not to raise difficulties over Mor- i occo, nor exercise presure on France. THE HOME RULE FIGHT. (Received October 23, 12,15 a.m.) LONDON, October 22. Mr J. B. Lonsdale, Unionist member for Armagh,' speaking at Bolton asserted that Homo Rule would produce the greatest struggle since the Civil War. The men of North Ireland were equal to any army. England could nut in the field, and were determined riot to sell thoir rights and liberties without % struggle. A REMARKABLE CASE. (Received October 23, 9 a.m.) . '' >NEW YORK, October 22. Mr Chandler Ross, who. lost his memory fourteen' years ago through an injury to his head and who disapyeared on October lOtfti, was found in

a forest snapping like a dog. An operation en the brain restored his memory of his old life, but the past fourteen years are a blank. He does not know his young wife whom he married last August. TRAFALGAR DAY. (Received October 23, 9.30 a.m.) LONDON, October 22. Trafalgar Day was widely celebrated. Three hundred wreaths were laid on the Nelson monument. AUSTRALIAN ELECTIONS. (Received October 23, 10.30 a.m.) PERTH, October 23. The figures for the recent elections show that 75 per cent, of the electors exercised the franchise. This is a record. In the Bunbury electorate 91.71 per cent, of the electors voted. SYDNEY, October 23. The new rolls collected by the police show an increase of 19,000 electors since early last year. There is nothing to prevent the election taking place at the end of the year. ' (Received October 23, 10.30 a.m.) MELBOURNE, October 23. The State Parliamentary session has ended. The elections will take place on November 23rd. ——______ _____ EMPIRE ESSAY. AUSTRALASIAN PRIZE-WINNERS (Received October 23, 9.30 a.m.) LONDON, October 22. Among the Empire essay prizewinners are Peacock, Auckland; Ella i Maher, Piako; Muriel Mountier, Eat- 1 ikati; Mary O'Carroll, Ashburton; i Rosa Innes, Marlborough; Edward i Lismore and Myrtlo Lee, Ballarat; and Elsie Underhill, Rookhampton. LABOUR TROUBLES. STRIKE COLLAPSES. (Received October 23, 10.30 a.m.) HOBART, October 23. The butchers' strike, which lasted a month, has collapsed. LITHGOW STRIKE. (Received October 23, 10.30 a.m.) SYDNEY, October 23. Judge Scholes has extended to November 6th the time for payment of the fines imposed on September 19th in. connection with the Lithgow strike. INTERSTATE SERVICE. (Received October 23, 9.35 a.m.) SYDNEY, October 23. All inter-State vessels sailed on Saturday without Sydney cargo. SYDNEY WHARF LABOURERS. (Received October 23, 9.35 a.m.) 'MELBOURNE, October 23. The Council of the Waterside Workers' Federation met to consider the action of the Sydney wharf labourers. j Mr Hughes (Attorney-General) president, after the meeting -said that certain action had been decided upon, and he thought the dispute was capj able of settlement. | THE RAILWAYS REPORT.. ' , BITTERLY DISAPPOINTING. (Received Oceober 23, 9 a.m.) LONDON, October 22. , Mr Thomas, organising secretary of the Amalgamated Society of Railway I Servants, says the Railway Cbmmis- ! sion's report is bitterly disappointing, and none of the men's leaders have a good word for it. Burt, a member of the House of Commons, declares that the report makes 'for peace. In the matter of recognition the men have gained an important point. Mr Williams, secretary of the Amalgamated Society, states that the. report is the destruction of collective bargaining. Some railway managers are surprised at recognition in any form, and do not anticipate that the companies will reject the .report.' ' . PATIENT'S SUICIDE. HANGS HIMSELF IN LOCK-UP. (Received October 23, 9.35 a.m.) • PERTH, October 23. Case, the patient who aan amok in Laverton Hospital, committed suicide in the lock-up by hanging himself with strips of blanket. A message from Perth on Thursday last stated that an Austrian named Case ran amok in Laverton Hospital, and stablwd six patients, none of them seriously, owing to the knife being broken. Tha convalescent patients and nurses overcame Case, and strapped him to the bed.