POLITICS AT HOME.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LIII, Issue LIII, 10 April 1908, Page 5

POLITICS AT HOME.

THE GOVERNMENT ATfACKED.

[fbsss association.) LONDON, April 9.

Lord Lanedowne, speaking at the €onseavative Club, declared that the Bills were tainted witU the spirit of vjndictiveness and weri •opposed to the genual well-beitag. TLeir liiumoial policy,' he said, was likely to bring them to serious grief Bo hc»ped they muld learn from, the recent by-elections, of the country's disilluiicnmeait. A niw. Govwrnmcaxt-had .a great chance^ if ;the lUnicmista willing to atal witli the education atad the tfcjjiperi»nce questions on-moderate •and reasonable, linos, and if they were .ready to osamine carefully -and not obstructively any of the proposals conr cedved in a juat and moderate spirit. JHSSiNG THE KING'S HANDS. {Retedved Afril 10, 8,8 aim.) LONDON, April 9. King 1 Edward returns 'fro-in 1 Biarritz «a tha I^thinsfc., curlier tbaiu was eapected. ' Thfy Times declared that the comjnohy of Mr Asquith ki&saDg the Kind's ianda at Biarritz was a wide departure from the hitherto unbroken precedent. Perhaps' ib was a pictureequet and graceful tribute to tlie reality of the en-tc-intei owing to which King Edward" and Mr Abquith are so much, at homo in France, but everyone with, a sound Jsnciwlodge of our political system must Mopci that the pi'tcedent will not be repeated except hi ca&e o£ nececaity.