CABLE NEWS. BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

Feilding Star, Volume I, Issue 287, 10 June 1907, Page 4

CABLE NEWS. BRITISH AND FOREIGN.

[Br Eucnio Tilmkaph—Coptrioht) [PBB PSBBB ASSOCIATION.] LORDS AND LIBERALS. London, June 8. Speaking at the Conference of the National Liberal Federation at Plymouth, the Bight Hon. Thomas Shaw, Lord Advocate for Scotland, referring to the House of Lords, said the die was cast and it would be a peoples struggle for the mastery of the House of Commons. Sir H. Campbell Bannerman's scheme would leave no beating about the bush. , . In the evening at a meeting m the Drill Hall, Sir H. Campbell-Banner-roan, addressing a gathering of 6000 declared that the harmony of the Liberal party, both inside and outside the House, was perfect and never so great as at present. The Houst of Lords had been responsible for enormous waste of time. Successive blows by the Lords at the authority of the Commons, though directed against particular measures were part of a general Bcheme discrediting any I iberal government. The very exiptanoe of Liberalism as a power in. the State depends on the struggle whereon Government are embarking If self-respecting Liberalism, with ths country behind it, was unable to fcrce its policy it had better go down in asserting its rights than linger as a shadow of Government. The Lords bad abused their powers within the constitution, and the Liberals m assigning them their proper place at« defending the constitution, which thf Lordß are straining. The time for compromising, temporizing and expostulating has gone, and the Lords must be told that the people must be masters in their own House. According to accepted constitutional doctrine the last word and ultimate supieroaoy rest with tlw Commons. The Times declaies that Government's plan is apparently in nowise an attempt to secure the expression of the permanent intention of thfpeople. Its plan of putting a party majority of the Commons in a position of supremacy was never intended, as it would fundamentally altar tho constitution and defeat the V*" vcinment's professed objects. THE NEW HEBRIDES. It is semi-officially stated in conrtction with the late negotiations between Britain and France over the New Hebrides, the question of oxchange of territory did not arise. A GIFT TO CHARITIES. William Waldorf Aator has given fGur London charities £10,000. NAVAL CONTRIBUTIONS. Router's correspondent at Cajin town states it is understood that the Admiralty hare agreed to Naval contributions of the Cape and Natal being spent locally, a portion of the contributions to be devoted to the upkeep of ships provided by the Admiralty and the rest to be spent on improvement of defences and establishment of the nucleus of a colonial navy composed of submarines or destroyers. Local legislation is to settle arang'>ments and provide for a service of Tolunteers anywhere abroad. Dr. Smart, Cape Commissioner of Works, announces that the Cape and Natal will henceforth act jointly. as if the volunteers of the two colonies were a federal force. FRENCH LABOUR METHOD Paris, June 8. Two men named Levy and Bous quet, Labour leaders and anti-Mili-tarists, have been sentenced to two yoars' imprisonment at Seine Assizes for inciting workmen to pillage; alsD for complicity in strikers' acts, robbery, and destruction of property. The public prosecutor declared that the Paris May Day demonstration in KO6, organised by accused, cost the Treasury £140,000, and recently they attempted to organise a general strike. i