IMPERIAL POLITICS.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIIC, Issue 13774, 10 December 1908, Page 5

IMPERIAL POLITICS.

LIBERAL PARTY'S DANGER. Press Association-By Telegraph-Copyright 'LONDON, Doc-. 8. Tln> " Westminster Gazette " warns tin* Government that submission to rebuffs from the House of Lords and the Church would involve extinction. The Lilioral Party must act courageously, or there would he a great swing of the pendulum and a return of the Tariff Reform party with a majority big enough to make protection the sole issue for years. PREVENTION OE CRIMES BILL. LONDON. Dec. 8. The Prevention of Crimes Bill has been read a third time. It embodies preventive methods by detention of accused persons. The Court is empowered to sentence for that purpose to a minimum of five years and a maximum of ten years, and the Home Secretary is empowered to shorten sentences. TIIK UNEMPLOYED. Received 9.20 p.m., Dec. Oth. LONDON, Dec. !). Mr Keir Hardie has introduced a Bill to amend the Unemployed Act, so as to enable the authorities to pay wages out of a hall penny rale, and has already empowered the Local Government Board to appoint local distress committees where none existed, though required. THE LAND BILL. AMEN DM KNT REI ECTED. Received Pi.l<> a.m.. Dec. 10th. LONDON, Dee. 'J. Mr Wynoham's amendment to rejeet Mr Birrell's Land Bill, on 'he ground that it threw fresh ol.sta.lcs in the way of the sab- of holdings to occupiers, and increased the Exchequer's re>poii.-ilnlitie.s without conferring a corresponding, iM-neitt on tenants and owners .uas negatived l.y 'JM votes to 15"J

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