BRITISH POLITICS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 11251, 16 April 1908, Page 5

BRITISH POLITICS.

RUINING THE HOP INDUSTRY. THE MANCHESTER ELECTION. (Press Assn.— By Telegraph.— Copyright.) LONDON, April 15. il Sir Gilbert Parker, in the House of g Commons, directed attentiori to the ruins a tion of the Kent hop industry by the s dumping of 8000 tons of American hops into the United Kingdom within a *fow weeks. iMr Lloyd-George deprecated it as an exaggeration, and attributed the difficulties of the British industry largely to the development of labor-saving machinery and the use of hop substitutes. Ho jocularly suggested that brewers shbuld j show patriotism by only using British hop6. The House should await the result of the select committee's ;in- . qu'ir'y. / • . . The House of Commons adjourned to i the 27th inst. 3 (Received Aprill6, 8.8 a.m.) LONDON, April 15. Lord Fitzmaurice Buchanan, member of tlie House of ' Commons, !has been created a Privy Couricillor. The Daily Chronicle urges Mr Ruiicima'iy to convene an informal conference ' to arrange a compromise on the subject of the Education Bill. Mr A.. G. Hales has : abandoned his | candidature. He supports Mr . Hack's candidature. Mr Irvmgs, a Socialist candidate; stands. L .Mr Churchill, in a vigorous speech at , Manchester, declared tnat his defeat would be a serious blow to freetrade, but would not cause the Government to re- ; sign. ,