BRITISH POLITICS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 10516, 26 July 1910, Page 3

BRITISH POLITICS.

[BV EI.KCTBIC Telegraph— Cor-Yiu.JHT ] (I'mi Pkess Association.) Received July 20, at 2.J0 p.m. London. July 25. During the Budget debate Air Fitzalan Hope's amendment making tho dutv on tea. grown in the Empire 4.(1, wns' rejected by 188 to 14/5. . Colonel Seely objected to the measure as it would mean a loss to tho Treasury of a million and a-qiiarter. He did not behove in tho possibility of •omenting the Empire by means of tarifl.i. The Hon. A. Lvtteltun said preference would probably involve a food tax, but, the Unionists were pledged to compensate the class mainly affected. Ho cited Mr Lloyd-George's justifying heavier and heavier burdens on Ireland bv the boon of the old-age pensions.