A PREMIER'S DAY.

Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 13159, 4 July 1908, Page 9

A PREMIER'S DAY.

Claimants for a limitation of the labour day to eight hours may reflect with complacency, perhaps with profit, on the Primo Minister's task of yesterday, wrote Mr 11. W. Lucy on May 23rd. In the morning he presided at a Cabinet Council, an exhaustive business in the pre&ent rush of public Ho was in his place on the Treasury bench.wwhetn t at a quarter to 3, tJx* Speaker took the chair. As poon .is> questions vero over ho repaired to his private room, and there received a deputation of some Three score Liberal members, who pressed upon him tho desirability of giving facilities for dealing this seeskm with ihe of Women's Suffrage. In reply .ho adumbrated a scheme' of comprehensive Parliamentary reform, designed to crown the edifice whose foun-iatiione were iru'd 76 years ago. Back to the House of Commons, ho sat an attentive listener *--> debate on the Education Bill, and at the e?i<l of two hours interposed with delivery of an imwrtant stoterHTit of the Ministorial position. The division was called at a quarter to 8. At 8 he was due at the Ik-form Club, lhe honoured guest of n spociaJ banquet. Her© he delivered another imfortani speedi, coverinfi the many »:>pic9 at tho moment to the fore in the political world. In addition to these fubtic manifestations of strength and rarsatility, ho had, of course, to meet the calls in tie way of oorreapondenoo er conference that " hourly besei th« Trinve Minister. Thin ie th» sort of .thing that killed Sir Henry Campbellliannennan, and from time to time broke down t-he energy of Mr Glad-

stone. Happily. Mr Asquith, whilst comparatively young as age is counted with statesnvon, rarely knows what it is to have a day's illness.