IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT

Evening Star, Issue 13016, 29 July 1908, Page 6

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT

[vc DmiZULITS SALARY. ~ QUESTIONSiIN PARLIAMENT. Press Association^—By T^egraprr-Copyrighfc. |iv:. . [~ In ihe House-of Commons a short dis;tiussion arose on], the question of Dinizulu's salary •~r .. ;c . , j-. Mr H. Pike..Pease affirmed that all sections of the House were united in the belief that the colonial Government were in honor bound to. pay the salary., The Foreign Office vote was then agreed to. ;: A Blue Book reveals a sharp conflict of opinion between Earl Crewe and Mr Moor (Premier of Natal) regarding the possible effect upon the natives of the payment of Dinizulu's salary out of the Imperial Treasury.

Mr Moor strongly protested, and declared that the evidences of unrest among She Zulus were;-tie outcome of the Home Government's interference and their attempts to belittle the Natal Ministry's authoritv. ':.-'■

Earl Crewe,;in/.his communications, emphasised the Imperial pledge .given to ' Dinizulu, anS "the unwillingness of the Government to .allow his trial to be prejudiced by his lack of funds. It was also important to "avoid the contemplated liti- ; Ration in England with the adverse criti•cism which would inevitably be passed before the English tribunal on the Natal cMinistry'6 action. He hinted that Natal ■ might wish to adjust the payment later. T r. —rr— *. V-t. PROTEST FROM NATAL. IMPERIAL GOVERNMENT CRITICISED. T -. ....... DURBAN,.JuIy 28. v " (Received July 29, at 8.45 a.m.) Mr Hulett will move in the Natal Assembly the following resolution:—"That the Imperial Government's decision to pav Dinizulu's salary is fraught with serious danger to Natal and South Africa, and tend to defeat the ends of justice through the natives drawing the inference that Great Britain is backing Dinizulu against Natal." THE BRI'IISH GARRISON. LONDON; July 28. Mr HaJdaJie (Secretary of War)'advises that there are 900 regulars in.Natal. ISOLATION OF GERMANY. LONDON, July 28. Replying to criticisins in the House of rV-mnxms on the policy of the Government, Sir E. Grey was cheered on declaring emphatically that it was very undesirable that any section of opinion iii Great Britain should represent the British policy as :.iming at the isolation of Germany. It was no part of British policy to isolate any Power. So far as the Congo and Psrsia were concerned, the national duty was one of watchfnlntss! THE TURKISH CONSTITUTION. LONDON, July 28. Sir E. Grey, in welcoming the Sultan's proclamation of a Constitution for" Turkev, remarked that Great Britain's object in Macedonia had..' never been political. If the Turks v, ere going to improve the government of Turkey, it would benefit the Moslems and Christians alike. The Macedonian question might now be dealt with in a better way than by partial reforms forced upon Turkey by the Powers. IRISH UNIVERSITIES BILL LONDON, July 28. In the Houso of Lords the Irish Universities Bill was received favorably, and read a second time without division. UNEMPLOYED ACT RENEWED. LONDON. July 28. (Received July 29. at 8.53 a.m.) The Workmen's Unemployed Act was renewed until the Poor Law Commission issue their report, after Mr Burns (President of the Local Government Board) had threatened thai the £200,000' set apart each year for the unemployed would lapse if the Act expired.