BRITISH POLITICS.

Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 760, 22 December 1908, Page 2

BRITISH POLITICS.

THE TIMES REVIEWS THE POSITION. - ;BY ELECTRIC TEFiEQBAFH — COPI2I6HT.) [PEB PBBBB CBBOOUTION.] London, December 21. The Times, in reviewing the last session, says that Mr Asquith's Government is substantially weaker in g>sition than was the late Sir Henry ampbell r ßannerman's in January, nevertheless, the Old Age Pensions, Miners' Eight Hours, and Port of London Bills as introducing new legislative principles, may be expected to exercise a wide • and lasting effect on their respective sphere.