IMPERIAL POLITICS

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13903, 14 May 1909, Page 5

IMPERIAL POLITICS

■r IRRITATED MEMBERS

Press Association-By Telegraph-Copyright

.''"'". : . LONDON, .May 12. , The .House of Commons is- becoming increasingly angry- at . Mr, Lloyd George's, tentative; and indefinite proposals,'and his plea that the resolutions must be passed before the House is informed what the Finance Bill contains. Mr Lloyd George''admitted-that the tax of 3d in the £ *upon sales of liquor at clubs would be easily evaded by increasing the subscriptions. He explained that 6d in the £ to purchase liquor would obviate the need of employing a clerk, to register the sales. He promised -to consider Mr Austen Chamberlain's suggestion of a sliding scale. - A WIDE MARGIN. PROMISE NOT REDEEMED.

Received 10.30 p.m., May 13th. - LONDON, May 13

' Mr Herbert Samuel, estimates that as a result of the new taxation the liquor trade is fastening on the public an increased price of twenty million to meet a taxation »f four million. Mr McKenna, in reply to. a question said that though he promised on 16th March to order parts of the mountings for four Dreadnoughts to be placed immediately, none had yet been placed. Pie added that' at;", present only tyr.o firms in Britain make "gun mountings, and that he should apply to Krupp's, BUDGET RAMIFICATIONS. Received 12.50.a.m., May 14th. LONDON, May 13. The Archbishop of Canterbury at the .festival of the sons of the clergy, stated that if the Budget became law £50,000 would be lost annually to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners' funds for the benefit of the poorer clergy. The Lord Mayor of Dublin presided at a meeting of various public bodies of Ireland, when resolutions were carried protesting against the Budget and appealing to an all Ireland committee to combat the proposed taxation.