GREAT PARTIES.

Evening Post, Volume LXXX, Issue 111, 7 November 1910, Page 7

GREAT PARTIES.

j A DESIRABLE THING. | VETO CONFERENCE. SPEECH BY MR. HALDANE. ''By Telegraph.— Press Association.— Copyright. (Received November 7, 9 a.m.) LONDON, 6th November. Speaking at Oxford, the Right Hon. R. B. Haldane, Secretary of State for j War, stated that whether the Veto Conference failed or not it would have an influence for good. It was desirable that the great parties should approach j each other and come closer on certain subjects. These approaches, always tentative, might not succeed, but they j would never be made without some result. What was obscure would become ! by their means to some extent translucent. TWENTIETH MEETING. : A REPORTED COMPROMISE. LONDON, 6th November. The twentieth meeting of the Veto Conference has been held. The Dublin Evening Herald states that the Veto Conference has arranged a compromise respecting the House of Lords question, and that the Conservative leaders have agreed to support the Government until a new scheme applicable to Ireland has been submitted to Parliament or a fresh conference is held. HOME RULE. MR. REDMOND PROMISES DRAMATIC NEWS. LONDON, 6th November. Mr. J. E. Redmond, Leader of the Nationalist, Party, has informed a London correspondent that he has raised £40,000 for political piirposes. He promises dramatic news within three weeks if the power of the House of Lords is not curtailed. COLONIAL OFFICE. NO PRESENT PROSPECT OF CHANGES. LONDON, sth November. There is no present prospect of changes in tho Colonial Office. It is probable that Sir Frances Hopwood. Under-Secrelary for the Coionie-s, will remain in his present post until tho Imperial Conference. Renter's News Agency states that no decision has yet been taken respecting the division of the department, though division is undoubtedly intended. HOUSE OF LORDS. REFORM ADVOCATED BY DUKE OF ARGYLL. LONDON, 6th November. j Speaking at Inverness, ijhe Duke of Argyll advocated reform of the House of Lords. REVEILLE COMMITTEE. I A FURTHER MANIFESTO. LONDON, sth November. The Unionist Reveille Committee has issued a further manifesto declaring its uncompromising hostility to Home Rule, in any form, or under any appellation. Unionism, it is declared, needs enforcing, and the people must not be left in doubt as to the opinions of leading statesmen on this and other topics i of the day. ' [Increasing unrest in the Unionist i rank and file resulted recently in a hundred Lords and Commoners, headed by | Lord Willoughby De Broke and Mr. ! Henry Pag-e Croft, Unionist member for Christchurch, forming an organisation to induce the. party leaders to take up more active propaganda work instead of relying on their present defensive policy. It was urged that the leaders should give a plain and definite lead, and make a statement regarding their legislative programme.] I -