A BLUNDERBUSS.

Feilding Star, Volume IV, Issue 1125, 4 March 1910, Page 2

A BLUNDERBUSS.

BUT IT IS CRACKED, SAYS HEALY. K^^ THE REiDMOND WEAPON FOB, HOME RULE. AN IRISHMAN'S TAUNT. NATIONALIST LEADER DISSOLUTION. jfl LORDS TO REFORM THEM- . SELVES. AN ANGRY DEBATE. BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH—COPYRIGHI PER PRESS ASSOCIATION. London, March 3. Air Maunco Healy, who is an U Wrienite, in. a speech to his constituents, said that Mr Redmond (Leader ot the- Nationalist Party) was armed with a, cracked blunderbuss and was ready to vote against the Government when every regular oppositionist would refrain; but he was careful f" m other circumstances not to fire the / cracked weapon. ■; Mr O'Brien, in a speech, also taunt--' ea Mr Redmond with resting on 4~\ academical resolution which the Lords' I would light their pipes with. The Redmondites and Radicals would then return to the electorates and meet t<, much sounder drubbing than before. 'Mr Redmond, in acknowledging the American contributions to the party fimd, predicts a general election heroro many weeks. The Supplementary Estimates amount to £689,100, including £45,----/00 for preliminary work on the four contingent Dreadnoughts, which are to be laid down on April 1. The Estimates were agreed to after a short discussion. The Unionist leaders in the House ot-. Lords intend to introduce proposale regarding the reform of the House, firstly by a declaratory set of resolutions.

It is now stated that the Navy Esiti mates will total forfcy-one millions I (deceived March 4, 10 a.m.) London, March 3. in the House of Commons, during tan angry criticism of the Government for its new borrowing policy —■ Mr A Finlay, Unionist member for Lanarkshire, accused them of wantoo. perversity, and declared that only the Government's allies would oppose +he income-tax resolution. Mr Horatio Bottomloy, liberal member for Hackney South, said: "Borrowing from debtors is the apotheosis oi business inaptitude " The Hon. B. McKenna, First Lord of the Admiralty, declared: "We are not going to adopt the course mapped out by the House of Lords." Lord Hugh Cecil said that the Government ought not to refuse a reso- ■ lution for the collection of the incometax out of pique and temper because ■the new House was against the Government on the Budget question. Sir W. S. Robinson, Liberal member or South Shields, denied that there was a resolution to compel people to pay the income tax before the Budget was passed. The Hon. Mr Lloyd George considers that the Houee of Commons will disapprove of taking an Income-tax Bill apart from other measures of the Budget.

Unionist newspapers protest agaiosfc this view, and urge the Government to straighten out the disordered finances.

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