BRITISH POLITICS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLV, Issue XLV, 14 March 1910, Page 5

BRITISH POLITICS

THE MINISTERIAL SITUATION.

MR. ASQUITH'S INTENTIONS. ROYAL GUARANTEE OR AN APPEAL. [Press Association—Copyright.] LONDON, Sunday. Several newspapers anticipate that when the Lords reject or postpone the House of Commons'veto resolution Mr Asquith, Premier, will ask the King for guarantees or appeal to the country. Mr. Acland Hood, speaking at Wellington, anticipated Mr. Asquith's resignation within three months, for which a financial crisis is being prepared. Unionist newspapers are publishing Mr. Churchill's speech of the 25th February.

The "Daily Telegraph" states that the Nationalists have received assurances that the whisky duties will be abandoned in the next Budget.

Ih the House of Commons Mr. Haldane, Secretary for War, yielding to Opposition protests, promised the Army annual Bill before Easter. He announced that he was taking sufficient suppiy for the Army for several months.

Unionists thanked Mr. Haldane for his conciliatory attitude.

AN UNOPPOSED P.ETUBN.

GOOD FEELING AT READING,

(Reed. March 14, 10.40 a.m.) LONDON, Sunday

Mr Rufus Isaacs, K.C., has Loon reelected unopposed on assumption of Ministerial rank. He publicly thanked the Conservative Association for a graceful act in not opposing him. He said that his return was not a political triumph, but it Was a striking example of the friendship between the different parties at Reading.