IMPERIAL POLITICS.
ra?BCiAr. to Pbbbb Association.] LONDON, August 3.
The Daily Chronicle says that the autumn session is doomed, as Government hesitates to enforce closure upon Supply, and the Conservatives have arranged to obstruct until October,.
Lord Ashbourne, in the House of Lords sa'v.d that the inevitable taxation arising out of autonomy would impoverish the farmers in Ireland. They would not be able to tax other classes b&cause they would leave the country. Sir E. Grey, replying to attacha upon the weakness of British diplomacy in the East, said that British interests were fully maintained, and were not endangered by the terms of settlement. England and Franco bad signed an agreement assenting tO' the maintenance of a State to act us a buffer between their possessions in the Eastern Peninsula. Mr Balfour replied that a powerless buffer State was a poor substitute for au indepondeiat Siam. A Committee of the House of Commons is enq uiring into a squabble which took p’lace in the dining-room attached to the Parliament Buildings between Messrs W. O’Brien and J. Chamberlain.
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Lyttelton Times, Volume LXXX, Issue 10108, 5 August 1893, Page 5
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