Second Edition BRITISH POLITICS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 1, 11 December 1911, Page 6

Second Edition BRITISH POLITICS.

HOME RULE QUESTION

(By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (United Press Association.) London, December 9.

Mr. Austen Chamberlain, at Bristol,. refefjripg to. .Home Rule, said everybody agreed that Ireland was now happier materially than at any time. Why, he asked, should the good work be interrupted? Mr. Campbell, M.P., at Hounslow, said the Irish enjoyed" the same rights and privileges as thee'English. Their real grievances were Pswept-a'way by the Land Acts.-: ■.They were now more self-reliant and and did not want Home Rule. Mr. Isaacs, presiding at a Home Rule demonstration, at Reading, denied Mr. Bonar Law;/.contention that a Government majority Hviis obtained on other issues than Home Rule. Mr. Redmond said Irishmen never would be bribed by .doles or coerced by imprisonment or oppression. The Nationalists had an indestructible nationality and a historical right to Home Rule. He added that Mr. Bonar Law was most ungrateful, complaining that the influence of the Irish vote in Britain was because ho owed his first election for Glasgow to the instructions of the United Irish League. (Received 11, 8.5 a.m.) London, December 10. Mr. Maitland, Commoner, in a speech at Wresham, declared that there was no analogy between Home Rule in Ireland and in the Dominion. The Canadians, who united in seven provinces forming a united Canada, were Unionists, while similar work was done by Liberals in Australia and South Africa. Therefore the colonial analogy told against Home Rule in Ireland. THE INSURANCE BILL. Loudon, December 9. An employers’ meeting at Manchester, representing 207 North of England trades and 900 firms, urged Parliament to postpone the Insurance Bill, on the ground that it was neither understood nor sanctioned by the country, and gravely imperilled industries. Sir Chas. Makara, presiding, declared at a meeting of the Ordinary Cotton Spinning Company that, on the profits of tiie past twenty-seven years, the Bill was eouivalent to an increase of a farthing in the pound in the income tax. (Received 11, 8.4 a.m.) London, December 10. An ! official memorandum shows that the intended Insurance Bill shall come into operation on July 15th. Power is taken to substitute a date not later than January Ist, 1913. NAVAL PRIZE BILL. Loudon, December 8. The Naval Prize Bill was read a third time in the House of Commons by 172 to 125. Sir Edward Grey declared that the Bill did not pledge the country to ratify the Declaration of Lon lon, "and (he added) if others hang hack we can do flic same.” In the House of Lords the Bill uar read a first time, In the ilr'iso of Commons the Shops Bill was read a third time, ft ensures 45 minutes for the mid-day meal, 30 minutes for tea, and a halfholiday weekly, but owing to the exigencies of the session the controversial ,clauses were dropp'd, including compulsory Sunday closing and restreting hours to i : n per week. (Received 11, 8.5 a.m ) London, December 10. A meeting of City clerks Urged the re-casting of the Insurance Bill. A meeting of colliery owners at Birmingham adopted a protest against tire Bill.