SPEECH BY LORD CURZON.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 13673, 11 April 1908, Page 5

SPEECH BY LORD CURZON.

By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright.

LONDON, April 10.

Lord Curzon, presiding at a Unionist mass meeting' at Basingstoke, remarked that it was ten years since he had addressed any political gathering in England. Mr Balfour's fiscal platform was one whereon all sections of the Unionist party could well unite, and whereon the ultimate, reunion was not only possible, but certain. He did not envy cither the common-sense or political foresight of the man who declared that no change- in the .fiscal policy was required or likely. He believed a. change of some sort was. necessary and inevitable. Possibly it would not .take precisely the shape the author of the movement anticipated, and perhaps would not fulfil all the ambitions and desires of its warmest partisans. He said he Bad not sufficient knowledge to enable him to dogmatise on tho matter.