IMPERIAL POLITICS
GENERAL ELECTION FORESHADOWED. LONDON, September 8. Mr Balfour’s Haddington speech has given an impulse to the expectation of a general election in the spring The Unionist organisation is speeding up, but the Liberal newspapers deride the possibility of an election before the Home Rule Bill has been passed for the third time.
THE LAND PROBLEM.
LONDON, September 9
In connection with Mr Lloyd George’s approaching land campaign it is authoritatively stated that the Cabinet is practically unanimous in favour of a widespread cystem of small holdings, the tenants paying an equitable rent, with security of tenure on the lines of the Scottish Land Act of 1911.
UNDIGNIFIED CON TROVER SY.
LONDON, September 10
Lord Salisbury, in reply to Mr Lloyd George, has asked for instances proving his charges made last week. Mr Lloyd George, in reply to Lord Wolmer, describes the latter as a person who, through blind malignity, blunders into a charge which he knows to be untrue, and, instead of apologising, tries to sneak out by blaming the reporters. u
DISPUTE WITH UNIONISTS. LONDON, September 11.
Mr Lloyd George, in reply to Lord Salisbury, offers to furnish particulars of the Cecil family’s investments when a member of the family was in office, but he says tlpe responsibility for publication must rest on Lord Salisbury.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3105, 17 September 1913, Page 27
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