IMPERIAL POLITICS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XIV, Issue 2961, 1 May 1893, Page 2

IMPERIAL POLITICS.

PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.

London, April 28. Mr Gerald M. E. Loder, member for Brighton in the House of Commons, moved in favor of the penny postage throughout the Empire, but withdrew his motion on the Postmaster-General declaring that it would involve a loss of revenue of j£ 100,000 beyond the loss resulting from the recent reduction to 2|d. Moreover the sanction of the parties to the Inter-State Postal Convention was necessary. Mr Gladstone, in speaking to the motion, sairi that many of the colonies would not concur in the penny postage, and with the * doubtful British surplus jand the present postal 'wants at Home, it was impossible for the Government to now make con cessions. Possibly, he said, the situation might be different in three years. Mr Froude, the historian, is of opinion that there will be a desperate war over Ireland, in which other countries will take part. Moonlight outrages are growing frequent in Kerry. The Catholics resume work in Harr land's yards in Belfast on Monday. The Budget was agreed to after some pungent criticisms from Mr Goschen. Mr Sydney Buxton, Under-Secretary for the Colonies, in reply to the Hon' W. St. «T- Broderick, promised to lay a return on the table showing the cost of erection of Parliament Houses in Sydney and Melbourne and other Parliamentary expenditure. London, April 29. It is expected that the Government will concentrate their efforts in the direction of passing the Employers Liability and the Parish Councils Bill, as the Registration Bill is regarded as doomed, being impracticable. "The Times," in discussing the motion tabled by Mr Loder in the House of Commons, asserts that the Government talk about a breach of the Postal Convention is simply dust thrown in the eyes of the public and a bogus objection. England, it asserts, is able to establish a penny postage whenever she pleases, and the people of the colonies would not object,