STATEMENT BY THE TIMES.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIX, Issue 66, 19 March 1910, Page 5

STATEMENT BY THE TIMES.

THE GOVERNMENTS PLAN. SEVENTY-FIVE~ENORMOUS CONSTITUENCIES LONDON, 18th March. The Times states that the Government's present plan for ejecting a Second Chamber is to subdivide Gieat Britain and lioland in feventy-five enormous constituencies, each returning two members, tho ••oior far •ifh'- y«*r»i »nd th« junior lor four y#*ri. xhe mem*

bers elected to replace tho hitter would serve for the remaining four years of the term of office) of tho senior members. IRISH BANQUET. ATTITUDE OF THE NATIONALISTS THEY DEMAND A STRAIGHT FIGHT. LONDON, 18th March. Mr. Redmond (Leader of the Nationalist Party), speaking at an Irish banquet in London, said the Nationalists were anxious to prevent tho failure of tl>e veto campaign, but did not intend to participate in a sham battle. They demanded a straight fight, not a Fabian policy. Come weal or woe they would stand by their pledges. He did not know whether they would succeed or whether the Irish cause would have once more to wait. Mt. T. V. O'Connor (Nationalist) in a speech at Liverpool, said that in a fight with the Lords the Budget was a weapon which ought fearlessly to be used. Mr. Herbert Samuel, PostmasterGeneral, speaking at Basingstoke, stated that the hereditary principle must go- ____ WHITE CITY EXHIBITION. ♦ JAPANESE ARRIVING IN LONDON. By Telegraph.— Preig AssoclaUon.-.-Copyriglitfc (Received March 19, 8.40 a.m») LONDON, 18th March. Hundreds of Japanese arc coming to tho White City Exhibition. The tiip, including fares and hotel expenses in London for a period of three weeks, will cost £100 each. Under the 4th February, our London correspondent writes : — Japan has already begun work at tho White City for the Japan-British Exhibition, to be held this year. Japanese workmen arc j there handling material from the Orient, and erecting reproductions of famous temple gateways, real tea-houses, arid models of beautiful spots in Japan. Finally, Shepher's Bush will become OrienI tal, as it onco was French. Sixteen buildings will be occupied exclusively by Japan, beginning with five of the eight overheard halls and continuing through the Wood-lane entrance halls and the buildings filled two years "ago with the French dresses, to the western half of the decorative arts building and the eastern wing of the machinery hall. The building hithorto devoted to women's work on the Stadium side of the grounds, and the jewellery building facing it, half of the restaurant once known us "Paillard's," half the fine arts palace and the little Louis Quinze pavilion, in the central gardens, will also be transformed into bits of beautiful Japan.