LEADERS CONFER

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 7048, 9 February 1910, Page 1

LEADERS CONFER

A POLICY QUESTION | ,- ■ I COMMONS’ ATTITUDE TOWARDS I THE LORDS. | LABOUR TV ANTS ABOLITION. ; By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. ! LONDON, February 7. i Mr D. Lloyd George, Chancellor of i tlie Exchequer, and Mr C. F. 0. Mas- i termo.ii, Under-Secretary for the j Home Office, who liavo been staying,; at Nice, in tlie South.of Franco, have j had an interview with. Mr H. H. As- j quith, the Prime Minister, at Cannes, j Mr Lloyd George’s presence in the ! Riviera has aroused much comment. | Unionists interpret it as an .effort of J the Radical extremists to influence the j Pliime Minister's decision as to ■ the i policy to be adopted regarding the i House of Lords. : , I

Mr G. H. Roberts, M.P. for Nor- , wich, and Whip of the Labour party, 1 says the, party will assist the Govern- i ment if it will abolish both the finan- | cial and legislative veto of the Lords. ! A CAMPAIGN OP VENGEANCE. i WHY MR O’BRIEN RETURNED TO 1 POLITICS. 1 Mr William OTlrien, Independent ' Nationalist member for North-east ' Cork, states that ho has re-entered • politics. because the campaign of, veil-ii geanob against twenty of his friends j took the form of, packing the convention for the selection of candidates : with delegates from specially manu-'ii faotufed brandies of the United Irish 'League. ~ ss4 Mr O’Brien added that ho was willing to agree to a round-table conference to adjust differences, on condition that tho Molly Maguires (a lawless Irish secret association which flourished about sixty years ago) are l removed from the mastery of the National funds. - . ■.. :.i IRISH AND ENGLISH MEMBERS.- ; NO ALLIANCE ALLOWED. -j The Right Rev. Edward O’ Dwyer, i Roman Catholic .Bishop of Limerick,-! in a pastoral letter, countermands any*' alliance of Irish Catholic members of * the House of Commons wi.th the English parties, because many’ l English ■ politicians were avowed atheists or So- - oialists, especially in their views ! on 1? the education question. , i

ANOTHER CONTEST? j A EABOU® FORECAST. _ ’ (Received Fcfcnmry 8, 10.35 p.m.)' LONDON, February B. ) The report presented to the Labor# ? Conference ia't Newport " declares fbhati Ithte mew Parliament is not dikely ; to-f Ihave a (Tong lease Of life, and adds—■ s that laiuotiher contest must be prepared . for shortly. 11 . - J