BRITISH POLITICS

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10669, 26 June 1912, Page 5

BRITISH POLITICS

CABLE NEWS

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DISPOSING OF SURPLUS

OPINIONS OF iHET KKNI& TERS.

(Received Law Night, 920 o'clock.) LONDON, JiAw 25.

Li. the 'House of Cuninonu, the Hon. D. Lloyd Georga said that, withc'ut anticipating the Hon. Winston Gkirclisll's statement .regarding the surplus., 11-lie additional sum tilat Mr Churchill would ask for would not exceed £l,(XX),C/JO, ibut ■further heavy paym-ectra woiuld fall due in subsequent years as. tha result of the programme Mr 'OburchrXl found it necessary to Cuttitvs. The Colontat Office, \c said, . w,as pressing for railway extension and increased .railway wharfage facilities to meet the yeady increasing productiveness of Uganda,, especially in cotton and wheat. ■ She'injurious- effect en. t'kf. ccttcAi Midustry,' through 'America's shortage, emphasised the danger of relying .upe'n- a particular source, flo anticipaited 105,000 cwt. of Uganda, cotton, in 1912. He proposed to advance £500,000 to Uganda at I I a fair rato'tf •in.tcce&t. The Gc'vera- i merit had paid off £78,000,000 of the NiaticnaJ Debt, therefore an incufficient payment did not account for the decline in Con soils.

The- Righit Hon.. Austen Chamber•laiiu approved, of the disposal elf the ■surplus. ,Fe>w Ghajicelions, lie .said,, had .been a.ble <io re-acquire consols at so js.ma'l,l an- expenditure. A vairiety of causes kd to the low prieei The. bred.it of the country was bound to 1 suffer wJiile tho G'overniment piled r.,p Jiab.ili.ty for the future. .

The H. ,H. Asquith de-•cfa-ed'.ilut "social reform and tlfo Navy involved demand's which mo GcvcTOaneiit 00-ufd re-cm*.- Y-ett theise had iboi'm aocompjYehed peri pa&su, by an unprecedented paymenifc aft thei.N'a■fciona'l (Debt. Tirade, he said, .was prcrperoirs, and .there was nothing to cause t'h-a leaist disquiet. GOVERNMENT OF INDIA BILL. THIRD READING PASSED. (Borcwcd Last Night, 10.25 o'clock.) LONDON, June 25. The Government of India Ball 'wajs '.read a -third time, alter Eairl Crewe, •■replying to lord 'Ourscn, denied that 'fch:re was any inlfcention of granting on- tho lines of the over,„,:nas DemUons.