ENGLISH POLITICS.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1060, 23 June 1892, Page 33

ENGLISH POLITICS.

By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. THE UNIONIST PROGRAMME. (PRESS ASSOCIATION.) London, June 16. Mr Balfour, addressing the members of London Unionist and Conservative Associations, said the Unionist programme favoured the division of rates between the owners and occupiers of houses, and the taxation of ground rents ; the right of the London County Council to acquire gas works, water supply and trams ; the extension of public works in England ; the modification of the poor laws by separating for relief the honest and sober from the drunken and thriftless. It also favoured the payment of State and municipal labour at a similar rate to that paid by private employers, and supported the One Man-One Vote if votes were made of equal value by means of equal electoral districts ; the extension of peasant ownership of land ; and the more adequate adjustment of employers’ liability. He also mentioned that in the programme it was agreed to refer to Ireland the promised Irish Local Government Bill. (special..) London, June 17. Mr Morley, in a speech to his constituents, asserted that coercion and protection were the pillars of the Tory policy.