POLITICS AT HOME.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LVI, Issue LVI, 21 October 1908, Page 5

POLITICS AT HOME.

-.(Received October 2i, 8.3 C a.m.) LONIX>N, Octobar .20. Mr Awjuith states that Mr Winston ♦Churchill's references to Home Rule, made recently in a. speech at D.irideei, xwesrei made on liis own responsibility. Mx Asquith asserts that his declarations will be niade early iv tho session. /Mr Kearley, Parliamentary Secretory to tho Board of Trade, moved that it ba an instruction to the committee* to insert in tlio Loudui Elpctrioity Suj ply Bill a clause giving the «ounty council an ultimate power of pumhasd Mr Winston Churohill's motion! to closure the debate was resisted! by tha Radicals and; Laboriten fund was only carried by 153 to 144, amid cries of "Resign!" The instruction was carried by 121 to 79. Mr Birretll, Secretary for Ireland, stated ia reply to* a question/ that 234 agrarian outrages wwe reported by thei constabulary during the whole of 1906; 372 in 1907} and' 4 lß for wine months of 1903.