BRITISH POLITICAL ITEMS.
O'BRIENITES PUNISHED.
WASTING; PARLIAMENT'S TIME,
THE BAGDAD RAILWAY.
(&„ Elgotbio , Teleorai'H-Coi'ymghi )
(Peb Pbebb Absooiation.i Received March 25, 9.15 a.m. LONDON, March 24 Seventeen O'Brienites were- sentenced at tho Cork Assizes to six months' imprisonment for rioting and assaulting the police at a Redmondito meeting in August. A meeting of Radical Commoners has protested against the waste of time, considering tho concession to Unionists aro retarding the Parliament Bill. Hon. Sidney Buxton, 'President of the Board of Trade, replying to questions, said the value of British exports in 1910 to Germany was £37,031,000, and Australasia £36,324,000. Sir Edward Grey, in the Houso of Commons, intimated that negotiation for the Bagdad-Gulf of Persia section of the railway wero proceeding, it being Britain's intention to secure tho fulfilment of guarantees of absolutely fair treatment to British trado throughout the system, and making the Gulf section purely a commercial undertaking,
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 9475, 25 March 1911, Page 5
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148BRITISH POLITICAL ITEMS. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 9475, 25 March 1911, Page 5
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