BRITISH ELECTORAL CAMPAIGN.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXII, Issue 200, 28 September 1900, Page 3

BRITISH ELECTORAL CAMPAIGN.

MR. GOSOHEN'S RETIREMENT, SPEECHES BY PARTY LEADERS. [PEK PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Received 27, 9 a.m. , London, September 26. ! Mr. Goschen shortly retires from the , Admiralty. He denies that he has any differences with his colleagues; 1 ob the cantrary, they are in entire accord. . Mr. Chamberlain received an enthusiastic reception at Oldham. The Liberal Party, he asserted, was a collection of internecine factions. When certain people encouraged Mr. Kruger at a critical moment to resist and give "Joe" another fall, no Liberal Imperialist, from Lord Rosebery downwards, said a single word to help the Government, and so convince Mr, Kruger that the country was united in its demands. Behind Mr. Kruger were the people upon whom the guilt of the war fell equally with Mr. Kruger. Mr. Wyndbam, speaking at Dover, admitted that the forces needed for South Africa were miscalculated at the I outset, but he denied the unpreparedness of the Army, inasmuch as 213,000 : men, with inumerable guns, were sent in the briefest time. The Government 1 was alert on the question of Army re; , form, and £7,000,000 was now being , spent on modern guns and coastal deI fence. The Times eulogises Mr. Goschen's career, saying the whole country will ■ feel severely the loss of his services. - His successor ought to be a man of ■ high capacity and authority in view of . the neceesity of a thorough examination into the administration and con- , dition of the navy, i Speaking at Manchester, Mr Balfour r said there had been no army reformer • on the Liberal side since 1870. ( The Duke of Devonshire, in a vigor- [ ous reply to statements made by the i Earl of Rosebery, said that now Lord I Rosebery had withdrawn from the leadership it waß difficult to discover i his ideal Liberal Statesman, representing practical legislation and a firm foreign policy, Sia Willi tm Harcourt, with an ad- ■ dress at Ebbaw Vale, began a series of daily speeches. Mr. Chambarlaio, he declared, by restricting the issues of the elecion was guilty of a piece of unconstitutional impudence. The chief question related t-> tin* iut,crests of tha forty millions of peoplo of Gr<at r Britain, and not to a tmi'dfu! iu the Trantv.ial, Tho coloni: s, he said, had rallied to the assistaLce of Great Britain because they had been given Home Rule.