IMPERIAL POLITICS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 5681, 16 June 1908, Page 4

IMPERIAL POLITICS.

LONDON, June 10. , -Many meetings organised by Government machinery and Temperance Societies favour the Licensing Bill. A select committee of tho House of Commons rejected a number of petitions in favour of the Licensing Bill, on the ground that numerous signatures were in tho same handwriting, and there were other irregularities. Mr Keir I lin'd ie, speaking at Portheawl. said that the Independent Labour Party had converted tho working classes /com Liberalism ami Toryism, aml -their second task would be to mala- tho workers Socialists. lie predicted that within ten years liberalism and Toryism would disappear. ... " LONDON, June 12. The imteijcrident labour members of the .House of Commons decided to •-•riw! an amendment to the Pensions Bill redu ei«g the age ■ to 05 years, abolishing the income limit and disqualification of present paupers, dilier-. eiltiiition istween, married couples and relatives living together, an 1 the character test.