BRITISH POLITICS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 10587, 18 October 1910, Page 4

BRITISH POLITICS.

[BY EIYECTItIC TELEOnAPU— Copybtoht.] '- (Ber T.RES3 Association.) Received'Oetobcr 18,' at 0.30 a.m. London, October 17. There is much speculation, on the public platforms and in Lhe newspapers as. to the progress of the veto coherence. ' - „ , .. Mr G. N. Barnes, at Bradford, said the very existence of the conference was a. .negation of democracy. It was discussing' a question which was settled beyond doubt in January. The sooner the conference was over the better. Mr E. W. Jowett said if an agreement was reached it would be bad for popular liberty. Mr John Ward, at Huddorsfield, said -he hoped the conference would end -in disaster. HOME RULE. Recoivod,„Oclobcr 18; at io.lo a.m. • London, October ■ 17. The Chronicle says upon the foundation of Home Rule for Ireland ib is possible to build up a federal system of government in the United Kingdom, extendable if and "when the self-govern : ing peoples desire a federation of the Empire... (Home Rule for Ireland would live to overburden the Imperial Parliament, and it would open the way to devolution in Scotland and Wales • nd simplify, if not settle the problem of the House of Lords' veto. Newspapers having repeated Mr Redmond's statement in America in favor of devolution, Mr Redmond has cabled to tlio United Irish League his' entire repudiation -of - the . sentiments attributed to him. Mr O'Brien states that the suggestion- that Mr Redmond's favoritism. of devolution-is an invention, will not, deceive anybody, and is dispelled by .the -fact that Mr.T. P. O'Connor made an almost identical declaration in Canada the same day.