IMPERIAL POLITICS.
THE HOUSE OF LORDS. LONDON, TSecemJber 4. Lord Tweedmouth (First Lord of the Admiralty), at Chelmsford, referring to the House of Lords, declared that it was ridiculous that anyone simply by right of birth should be able to veto the actions of the people's elected representatives. WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE. LONDON, December 3. A number of students broke up Miss Pankhumt's suffragist meeting at Nottingham. They also liberated tame mice on the platform, but she caught and fondled them. December 6. Lord Lansdowne, speaking at Sheffield, ridiculed the idea that the Houee of Lords was an. intolerable and pernicious anachronism, though he was aware it was not perfectly organised for purposes of I legislation. There might be an improveI menf , however, if the experienced peers who now did most of the revision work - were assisted by other peers chosen in a different and lees haphazard fashion than they were at present.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2804, 11 December 1907, Page 26
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151IMPERIAL POLITICS. Otago Witness, Issue 2804, 11 December 1907, Page 26
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