BRITISH POLITICAL CRISIS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 19, 17 July 1911, Page 5

BRITISH POLITICAL CRISIS.

THE LORDS SPARRING. By Gable. —Press Association.—Copyright London, July 14. Lord Newton's amendment to the Veto Bill has been withdrawn. It was coldly received by both parties. The door is now apparently finally closed on compromise, as the Unionist peers prefer to test the Government's powers to force their scheme upon the House of Lords. The report stage of the Bill has been completed, and Lords Lansdowne's and Cromer's amendments retained.

Lord Morley asserted that the Lords had amended the Bill so freely as to make it just the Bill they liked.

Lord Lansdowne said that if all the amendments were inserted, still it was a very dangerous measure. The third reading will be taken on July 20, and the House of Commons will consider the amendments on July 24, when it is expected that Mr. Asquith will intimate what he will do if the peers resist.

FINDING A SEAT FOR A MINISTER. Received 10, 5.5 p.m. London. July 15. Mr. Masterman, Under-Secretary for Home Affairs, who was unseated by an election irregularity, has been adopted as the Liberal candidate for South-West Bethnal Green, Mr. Pickersgill having accepted a magistracy. RETURNED UNOPPOSED. Received 10, 5.5 p.m. London, July 14. Mr Tim Healy, for North-Kast Cork, and Mr. Muldoon, for East Cork, have been elected unopposed.