IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.
London, June 3.
I The election, for the Frome division of: Somerset, rendered necessary by the succession of the Bitting member,, Viscount Wey- ! mouth, to tbe title of Marquis of Bath, took place to-day, and resulted fn the return of Bfr J. E. Barlow, the Radical candidate, who defeated Lord Thynne (Conservative) by a majority of 279 votes. At the election for Wick burghs, cquhgquont on the resignation of Sir John Bender, Mr T. 0. Hedderwick, the Radical candidate, defeated Mr Smith, the Unroniat t by a. ma jority of 212 votes. [Ab the general election laf* year. Viscounfe Wey mouth (C) v defeated Msr Barlow (the Liberal candidate) for Frome by a majority of 383 votes. Sir John Pender (Liberal TTnioniiit) defeated Mr Hedderwick (Liberal) by a majority of. 24 Yote3, the numbers polled, being 913 and 889.] Oune 5. Mr.Haabury, Financial Secretary to the Treasury, in answer to a question, said that there were no profiting demand's to have the Australian mail* carried by a 17- knot service. Such a speed' would involve a large increase in the subsidy. Sir M. Hicks-Beach, Chancellor of the Exchequer, in reply to Sir S Samuel,. AgantgeneraL for New South Wales, in which ha regretted he was unable to concede the request for the abolition oC the double. income tax,. stated thai;, to grant the request would involve a loss of. revenue, amounting to. nearly half, a million sterling. June' 7. The Chancellor of the Exchequer, replying'to the 1 Colonial Institute; says that the British taxis levied on income regardless of nature, locality, and property. Ha considered it equitable to doubly tax a person possessing, property in one coantry and spending his inSQttW in aaother. It would' be imrjosfiible to
confine the principle of i>« p t . cjl exemption to colonists resident io !?>■;', ao, iiut ib muofe extend to all' drawing uuconra from thd colonies. The tactics of the Opposition, combined with what the Government party allege if the Eight Hon. A. J. Balfour's flacoidit^ reader a, oartailmenb of tbe programme fm* perative, and the Government followers ara becoming unee*y. The Irish members, have petitioned the Home Secretary for clemenoy to political prisoners* pointing, oat the esampie set bj President Erager.
IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.
Otago Witness, Issue 2206, 11 June 1896, Page 16
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