IMPERIAL POLITICS.

Evening Post, Volume LXIX, Issue 55, 7 March 1905, Page 5

IMPERIAL POLITICS.

THE LIBERAL PROGRAMME. STATEMENT BY MR. ASQUITH. [press association.] (Received Murch 7, 8.35 a.m.) LONDON, 6ih March. The* Right Hon. H. H. Asquith, Liberal member for East Fife, ami a- foinier Soerotary of Stato for tlm Home DopartiTHmr, speaking at Dalston, declared that the Liberals nud agieed, after saving frectrado, that it was absolutely nocowmry to deal with Lho education and licensing queetions. Upon tho ndoptioa df ft moro just ana rational K)'«tcm of land tenure and hind taxation depended the solution of many urgent stfcial problems, including the housing of the poor. FIRST LORD OF THE ADMIRALTY. EARL OF OAVVDOR APPOINTED. LONDON, 6th March. Tho Earl of t'awdor's consummate mislmw capacity is generally recognised. The Daily Chronicle, amongst other nowgpapors, congratulates tho Government- on hi.4 appointment as First Lord of tho Admiralty in succession to Lord Selborno, who ha« been appointed! High CominisHioMr of South Africa. ['J'lie Earl of Cnwdor 1« Chairman of the Great Western Railway, and in 1896 Was, appointed Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire. He is 68 years of age]