IMPERIAL POLITICS.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13601, 22 May 1908, Page 5

IMPERIAL POLITICS.

—■ ■ . 'l'll K LAIiOUK IJAKTY. Press Assoeiat ion-I'.y Telegraph-Copyright LONDON, May 20. The ii'jijoritV "-I I lie Lancashire and C'lh-jhire mint;!'.-, vot.-il in favour (if atlilialiuii willi lliu Labour Kcprvsenkuioli .( *1 ill I in • t .'I". TMK KIUM'ATIUN i'.ILI, lt.-iviwd 9.19 ji.iii., Mnv 21k1. LONDON.' Miiy 21"In ill - (if 'Commons the Kditi-ilinn I.ill was lead a M-i-iiml tiiii,' )jy 270 Milt s to 20f> vmw. J l'<- minority included 64 Nationalist.!. Messrs. S. Samuel, I'. O'Donnrll, 1). *riinin:i.v. •loMcli. Mai-l'liri.'.fjis. t)'(iraily. ami JI ray.son. Although Mi' At=«jnil-li was mmc conciliaii.ry than other Minislvrs, Mr liah'oiir was uuabli- to elicit more lliau a willingon . ilit- pair, -of the (.iovcrnm-ent to consider suugi-fttioiis. compatible with fiiiidaviientaN. FISCAL riKUATK IX Till': I.OUIiS. LONDOX. May 21.' In tlio Hot).-;.'. of l->ord.s. the Make .of Marlljim.ugh initialed the tiscal (Iriiiir. . Kai| Cromer tlif.- minute da:<of the Australian lariti. He complain.-d that thole was a pr'i.-iju-cl of only Mii;lit cliai;£'-s ill ih'V colonial protective tariffs. ami ni"«;..*«l" iljfj Motherland I" leave well alone. Viscount Milner declared ilial the tion' was whether Fiiglaiid intended to 'he the principal selleis to the colonies. With two more treaties like the lYaneo-Oana-dian. and Hritaiti's position in the Canadian market would lie destroyed. OMEN'S* •S'I'FFHAf.JE. STATKMFXT BY .AIR ASQUITTf. h«-eei\'ed 10.22 ]i.ni.. May'2l.»i. LONDON," May 21. ' llr -AKquith. in reply to'a.' deputation of Liberal Commoners -in • favour of women's suffrage, eaid that-he recognised the impetus the movement. had gained in recent year.-'. ' He was not convinced,' but had ;nr open mind.-and, if. in connection with the comprehensive Electoral Inform Bill which the ■ Government intembd ;r> ; pass before the end of Parliament, an nihendmcnt was proposed in: favour of wn-in:-n's, suffrage. the Government would leave, its .decision; ta ih-* Jiou.»e, . and not oppose it- if changes proposed were on democratic lines. \ He Ridded thai . he v W.u s awiue that two-thirds of the flinisters. t'a-v-itH-d women B' suffrage. . . fii connection with ,\lr Asquitli's reply to the (juo.st.ion on women'* sufih-age the. Liberal * ih-wnpapers imply iliat i-nutically adult suffrage is intended and timt if theHouse of Lords reject it, it- will become the principal issue ab the general election. Some Conservative (speakers recently expressed the opinion that- *JIr Asquith is gradually and steadily preparing for a dissolution.