IMPERIAL POLITICS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXI, Issue LXII, 14 May 1912, Page 5

IMPERIAL POLITICS.

HOME RULE FOR SCOTLAND

j 8¥ CABLE— FEESS ASSOCIATION—COPYB2GHT. ! LONDON, May 12. Mr Mackinnon Wood (.financial Secretary to the Treasury), in a speech at Edinburgh,, declared tnat Scotsmen did not want Home llule on precisely the Irish model. They wanted to retain all their members at Westminster, not from se.fish motives, but because of-'the loss to the Empire if a single member were withdrawn. (Laughter.) THE PRIMROSE LEAGUE. A large assemblage loudly cheered Mr Bonar Law at tne Primrose League meeting at the Albert Hall. He said that he was confident that Mr Lloyd George would get some good election use from his six million surplus, instead of the Imperial Government looking after the interests of the Empire it went out of its way to help in making Canada an adjunct of the United States. <- Happily the true instincts of Canadians warded off the calamity. Victory in the present war of armaments rested with the longest purse. Britain's hope lay in uniting the inexhaustible resources of the sister nations.