BRITISH POLITICS.

Southland Times, Issue 14378, 26 March 1910, Page 5

BRITISH POLITICS.

Kit LLOYD GEORGE DENOUNCED

FOR VIOLENT LANGUAGE.

By Telegraph.— Press Association.—Copyright,

LONDON, March 24

Several Unionist papers are denouncing Mr Lloyd George’s violent language upon the subject of interference by landlords in elections, and lay stress on the fact that no such- complaints were made during the election of 1906. Mr Lloyd George describes the Gladstone League as a city of refuge for persecuted voters, who will employ an avenger of blood and prosecute intimidators.

MB EENNIKEB HEATON,

A SUIT FOR SLANDER,

LONDON, March 24

During the hearing of a side issue in- the Court of Appeal it was shown that Mr Henniker Heaton’s action against Goldney and the publishers of the Kentish Gazette arose from Goldney’s letter accusing Mr Heaton of former attempts to obtain a large sum of money from him as the price of his retirement from the representation of Canterbury.

LIBERAL LITERATURE

SEVERELY" CONDEMNED,

LONDON, March 24

Mr Thomas, Labour member for Derby, speaking at Glamorgan on behalf of Hartshorn, said that never before had he seen a party descend to the level the Liberals had reached in the literature they' were circulating. He hoped the Liberal headquarters in London would make themselves acquainted with it.

TEE BASTES BE CESS,

LONDON, March 24

The House of Commons has adjourned until Tuesday ; the House of Lords till Thursday.