IMPERIAL POLITICS.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 144133, 1 July 1913, Page 3

IMPERIAL POLITICS.

MR. ASQOTTWS BETIREWENT, / NOT PROBABCE VET, By El eotri e:Tolesjraph.^Copyright. LONDON, June 30. It is stated that Mr. Asquith, in a speech at a private dinner at the Reform Club, conveyed the impression that he felt his recent political anxieties much more than even his intimate political associates had been led imagine. , _ - . The newspapers recall the Premie several hints of retirement. ; The question of Sir E. Grey succeeding to the Premiership is being discussed in Parliamentary circles. The Daily Mail declares that it is highly improbable that Mr. Asquith will retire from the leadership until a dissolution and the Home Rule Bdl has been passed under the Parliament Act. Mr Masterman has informed an approved societies’ deputation that a further fuller insurance amending Bill is necessary, but owing to tbo ptesent lack of time it will not be introduced before 1914. THE LEICESTER ELECTION. (Received July I, 10.40 a.m.) LONDON, June 30. Sir M. Levy, M.P., in a letter in reply to Mr. Ramsay MacDonald’s remark about tittle-tattle, assumes the ■ responsibility of telephoning the manifesto to Leicester on the authority of a leading Independent Labour member of Parliament, with a request to announce it as the result of a meeting ,of the Labour Party. The member assured him that there would be no official repudiation. -Sir M. Levy adds that the ■ manifesto was written practically at his informant’s dictation. The Times states that Mr. G. Roberts, M.P., drafted ibe manifesto. 1 Mr. Heir Haxdie, interviewed at Cardiff, said he did not know why the Independent Labour Party had no candidate at Leicester. The question was still unsettled, but there would be a report on it in a few days. He also did not know why the party failed to support the British Socialist Party’S' candidate, but if the latter party stood outside the working class movement they were not entitled to support from those it despised. There was no agreement between the Labour Party and the Liberals regarding either double or single member constituencies.