POLITICS IN BRITAIN.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 14808, 11 October 1911, Page 7

POLITICS IN BRITAIN.

IoFUTURE OF THE LORDS.

'"'MIRROR ;OF THE ; PEOPLE/'

FEMALE .SUFFRAGE , COMING

'By Telegraph,—Press Association.— '■• '■''' fßeceived October 10, 9.15 p.m.) "

'. ' '■'-:,'- London, October io. ilKf'as speech at Aberdeen Lord Hal.dane (Minister ' for War) commented 'ofc ; ' Mr.' Balfour's • recent '-. speech [regarding the ' House of Lords. ", : ■;, V What Mr; Balfour wanted, he said, •Was .something : to supersede the j House \of J ; Commons, but what he (tpiidf Haldane) wanted was a small wpplfabre chamber, which would be a second .mirror of the opinions of the people. V ..' ' ' .'j Women's suffrage and devolution in ijiili parts of ■, the Kingdom, Lord Haldane. added, were inevitable.

NATIONAL INSURANCE BILL. LABOUR PARTY'S SUPPORT. ■•V (Received October 10, 9.15 p.m.)

.v •. .; rt: • " London, October 10. fln writing to a correspondent Mr. Ramsay MtfcDonald states that when the ;House-of Commons ' meets the Labour party will adopt the National Insurance Bill, His influence, he says," will be used in that direction. 'Mr: MacPonald adds that he wants one- or two Amendments, and he thought that : :the- party would ' get them. .It was a great mistake, he added, ytoi assume that the party, vstb the exception of two or three members, was , opposed to the Bill.

TH :■ CROWN AND THE VETO. £ WHAT J THE KING SAID. '(Received October 11, ilo am); ■: ' "';_ .'■: London, October 10. Lord Haldane, in referring to the Veto, said that the King made no bargain with. the Government, and the later had not asked His Majesty for .'.any- pledge. s. -,"■,' '''■■' The King said, "What the country,; decides, that will I accept." When the Lords' threatened i the rejection of ; the , Parliament Bill the King /. wisely handed ;;<■ Ministers his assent to the creation of new peers. .■•/-"> '<''• ;.'. .•'■-'' '•■"' "•'.*•■ -■' * ■ ■" "■ • r--.. •.'. I . <"'• ■ . - * ■■■■ '■'■• ■ y : . ■'"■*■, '• COMPROMISE ON THE BILL. ;y„ >:.• (Received October • 10, 10.10 p.m.), , .'*? t * '"■ London, October 10.' v lt -is runderstfjod that at a private inference f. between ,Mr. LloydGeorge 'and v representatives of the Jf edical Association and the Friendly Societies a' compromise regarding the Objections to i the National Insurance Bill was arrived at.