BRITISH POLITICS.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 12904, 8 July 1905, Page 2

BRITISH POLITICS.

i ELECTRICAL POWER SUPPLY "MONOPOLY,, 1 United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph —Copyright. London, July 7. A Bill establishing a practical monopoly for supplying 1 ■electrical' power in '•London was read the second time in [the Bouse of Commons by a majority of 41, -despite Mr John "Burns' stsong opposition on behalf of 1 the London County Council." POSTAL OFFICIALS. Received July 8, 8.28 a.m. London/ July • 7. 1 . On' post office vote, Lord Stanley (Postmaster-General) protested against the employees' incessant demands for increased wages, which, if granted, would cost ,*the country' two and a half millions, without'stopping the agitation. The way the • employees bombarded members of the House of Commons with letters asking support for increases .amounted- to blackmailing, backed up by veiled* poliKcal threats. " ' - The Right' Hon. Austen Chamberlain (Chancellor of the Exchequer)) declared that the interests" of the taxpayers must be protected. t The present sys^tern, was impairing the integrity and purity of public life, and must be slopped. An amendment tp reduce the vote was negatived by 249 to 205. \ I j I