BRITISH POLITICS.

Feilding Star, Volume IV, Issue 1106, 10 February 1910, Page 2

BRITISH POLITICS.

THIS BUDGET, .THE VETO, AND INTIxMIDATiON.

A CURRENT OF FRESH AIR IN TRVf LORDS.

«V ELKOTKIO TELEGRAPH —COPYKIGHT. PEa PUESB ASSOCIATION. (Received February 10, 8.30 a.m.) London, February 9. ALr Morton, a Liberal Whip, speaking lit West Islington, stated: "In a fortnight the liudget will be passed, and we shall be attacking the veto of bhe House of Lords. Liberals have also to face the task of curtailing corrupt practices at elections and of putting) an end to intimidation." Premier Asquith has returned to London from his visit to the South'of France.

(Received February 10, 5.45 a.m.) London, February 9. Mr 1. M. Healy, Nationalist member tor Louth, in a letter to Mr W. Redmond, Nationalist member for East, and leader of the party, asks why he was not invited to a meeting of the Irish Parliamentary Party, and on what principle Mr Redmond selects those- invited. He accuses '"Mr Redmond of reckless criminal disruption of the Nationalist' Party.

\t £ an ex-Governor of Aew Zealand, in a letter to the Daily Mail, refers to the Rosebery Committee as showing a concensus 'of opinion to admit into the House of Lords a current of fresh air. Lord Onslow states that twenty out of twenty-one ot the members supported Lord Roseoery s proposal for representation of large urban communities and cities in the Lords. Other instances show that an inuential body of peers i S willing to reform the House of Lords and make it the strongest and most efficient second chamber possible'under existing circumstances. . The Government's finances are being maintained by short-dated Treasury bills. The sum of £35,000,000 IS , "? w «utstandung, and £27,000.000 of the income tax is to be collected before the end of March