IMPERIAL POLITICS.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXX, Issue 15041, 8 July 1909, Page 7

IMPERIAL POLITICS.

THE LAND TAXATION PROPOSALS LONDON. July 7. United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.

Ef.tate agents in London and mining engineers and solicitors representing the bulk of the Yorkshiro and Midlands coalfields, at a conforenco at Sheffield, resolved that tho penalties in the land and minerals clauses of the Budget were excessive, and that the Bill was despotic in not allowing an unrestricted right of appeal. THE INCREMENT TAX. (Received July 7, 1.0.55 p.m.) LONDON, July 7. In tho Budget debate, Mr Lloyd Goorgo, in rospon.so to a frtrong recommendation from both sides of the Houso promised a clause allowing appeal from tho decision of tho Commissioner regarding assesisment of increment. AN APPOINTMENT. Mr J. W. Gulland, member for Dumfries, has boon appointod a Junior Lord of tho Treasury and Scottish Whip, necessitating a bye-election. LORD AVEBURY'S PROTEST. LoTd Avebury, in a letter, affirms that Mr Lloyd George's figures show that there is nothing in the state of tho national finances requiring or justifying so fundamental and revolutionary a change in the system of taxation. Moreover, tho proposals in some cases aro not taxation but confiscation.

MINISTERIAL CHANGES. (Received July 8, 12.5 a.m.) LONDON, July 7

-Mr O. F. Masterman, Under-Secre-tary of tho Local Government Board, will succeed Mr H. L. Samuel as Under-Secrotary to tho Home Office. Mr J. 11. Lewis, Junior Lord of the Treasury, will succeed Mr Masterman.