BUDGET EFFECTS IN IRELAND

Colonist, Volume LII, Issue 12726, 18 December 1909, Page 3

BUDGET EFFECTS IN IRELAND

Londoni;i>ec. 17. At his political meeting Mr. McKenna, First Lord of the Admiralty, detailod recent and, approaching naval launches, adding that . lie told, tlii.s utory in order'tha't -ttie people might understand that -Britain was secure, and they could: sleep comfortably /in their beds; .- _ ' ---■. - jVß'ss Marie ' Corelli, the. authoress, has issued an address, denouncing So-; cialism. . ''■'■..■ Lord Denman said that Mr Blatehthe poiiicy outlined by Mr. Lloyd George and Mr. Churchill would not fill empty stomachs. It would mean Ire--land for cattle drivers ; atheism for school children ; £500 a. year ior paid .officials; water for the working man; tho Empire for foreigners. ■■./.,.'■: I ' ' : •.-" Ltfrd Denman, said that Mr.- Blatcfc ,ford!s scare -articles relating -Jto -Ger---rnani war -preparations irere. -r^d /her- ' rings* d^awn acrbss the trail to save the House of Lords. . ; - f Mr .Joseph Chamberhiin in a letter /supporting Mr. .; Henniker Heaton's .candidature Canterbury, tsays it " had been given\to fowmen to^prpmote" reforms and see thfem^adopted' ill their Own lifetime, with universal approvals He adds,.; l ?I taike spiecJal -pleasure in the certainty of your return,- as .I.know how "warmly you appreciate jth'e-import-ance- of drawing the- Empi^e/clo'ser together.' Your wide, knowledge, of :colonial cpnditiohs and your support of the policy I endeavour to recommend should be of great yalue." ■'