IMPERIAL POLITICS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 14684, 18 November 1909, Page 7

IMPERIAL POLITICS.

THE BUDGET BATTLE.

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LONDON, November 16,

Mr Rufus Isaacs, K.C., M.P., speaking at Reading, said that the Lords' rejection of the Budget would cause serious financial chaos j nevertheless, the Government would not seek to make party capital out of the situation, but would strive to do its utmost to meet the situation.

A ROWDY MEETING, THE SOCIALIST THEORY. LONDON, November 16. Mr Ure, K.C., Lord Advocate of Scotland, addressed a meeting at Watford, There were many interruptions and ejedfcite, and lie was unable to speak for half an hour. Pickpockets were present in large numbers, expecting disorder, and secured a harvest of watches and money. Tils police arrested 14. Mr W. Horn, of the Bank of Adelaide, in a letter to the Standard enclosing 100 guineas towards that paper's Unionist working men candidates fund, says that "apparently the Socialist theory is that nobody is entitled to anything except the man who has not got it. Possibly soon in England it will be held to be criminal to 1 own anything exoept a vote, and not that even unless it is pledged to the Socialist, party." THE PORTSMOUTH SEAT. LORD BERESFORD TO STAND. LONDON, November 16. The Unionists at Portsmouth are inviting Lord C. Beresford to contest the bye-election, rendered necessary by the death of Sir J.. Baker, the Liberal member.

November 17. (Received Nov, 17, at 10.5 p.m.) Lord Charles Beresford has accepted the invitation to stand fov Portsmouth. The Conservative-Unionist organisation gav6 him a unanimous invitation to contest the vacancy.

SIR R. W. TERKS'S RETIREMENT. LONDON, November 16. Sir R. W. Perlis has declined to reconsider liis decision to retire from the Liberal party.

DEATH OF AN uM.P

LONDON, November 16.

Sir F. D. Dixon-Hartland, Bart., the Conservative member for Uxbridge, is' dead; aged 77 years.

T -ORD LANSDOWNE'S AMENDMENT.

LONDON, November 17. (Received Nov. 17, at 10.5 p.m.) , 111 the Hou« of Lords yesterday Lord I/tnadowne gave notice to move the following amendment on the forthcoming motion for the second reading of the Budget:—" That the House is not justified in giving its consent to the hill until it. has been submitted to the judgment of the country."'

SPEECH BY ,MU BALFOUR,

KEEN DEMAND fOR-SEATS.

LONDON, November 17. (Received Nov. 17, at 10.5 p.m.) Forty thonsan; applications were made for 5000 seats in the Freetrade Hall" by people desirous of hearing Mr BaJfom at Manchester to-night. LANCASHIRE LIBERALS ACTIVE. "A REVOLUTIONARY ACT." LONDON, November 17. (Received Nov. 17. at 10.5 p.m.) Mr Churchill has accepted the Lancashire and Cheshire Liberal Federation's invitation to tjpeidc in December. The federation has issued a column manifesto against tariff reform in relation to Lancashire's industries. Referring to the House of Lords, it asks why should a small cluster of titled persons be set up to rule all the rest- of us. If U,e Lords establish their right to control llw they will hinder all the Liberal legislation, and allow the Conservatives' Protection, conscription, and coercion schemes of war conquest to pass unchallenged.

The Daily Chronicle declares that the Lords' decision to destroy the Budget is war on representative principles. It is a revolutionary act, and will have revolutionary consequences.