CHAMBERLAIN AMENDMENT REJECTED.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIIC, Issue 14141, 26 February 1910, Page 5

CHAMBERLAIN AMENDMENT REJECTED.

A VIGOROUS DEBATE. Received 9.40 p.m.. (>';. 2t>tli. LONDON, Feb. 25. In the House of Commons Mr Chamberlain's amendment was rejected by 285 votes to 254 votes. The Redmondites and CBrierdtes abstained from voting, as also aid lUr Wedgwood, Mr Bel oc, Mr Bottomh and Lord Hugh Cecil.

Air Samuel vigorotiily favoured tariff reform and claimed that the main cause of unemployment was Britain's fatal system of buying goods abroad, which under a reasonable system could be produced at Home. Mr Balfour remarked that it was not a fantastic speculation to say that if preference hastened the time wherein large areas in Canada would be brought under the plough that the price of wheat would be diminished. The working classes' contribution towards national expenses was not increased by the mere fact of tho tariff. The Chancellor of the Exchequer could arrange tho proportion.

Mr Lloyd George mode a vigorous justification for ihs election "statements regarding black bread and offal, and quoted statistic* of the consumption of horseflesh and dogflesh in Germany. He certainly called this " offal," though the Opposition might regard it .as a delicacy. The French also eat donkey's flesh, and 50,000 British wornout horses were exported for continental sausages. Protection did not bring black bread to Germany/bub kept it there. The speech aroused'a strojig party demonstration. A

■ COLONEL SEELY'S SPEECH. A REQUEST DECLINED. Received 10.45. p.m,, Feb. 25th. Replying to Mr H. Dalziel, Mr Asquith stated v that Colonel Seely, at Ilkeston, wfas not speaking on behalf of the Government. .Replying to Mr- Redmond, Mr Asquith refused to fix a day for tabling his resolutions dealing with the Lords.

THE NAVAL 3WTIMATES. "Engineering" states that the naval estimates will;amount to £40,000,000. One battleship will be laid down at Portsmouth, another at Devonport, and two ships in private yards. In addition to those constructed at the cost of the Australian and New Zealand two other v of the Boadicea class, two vessels of the twin, (sic) class, and tvyenty destroyers' for the Home fleet will also be laid down, iii addition to several destroyers for the colonial fleet. ' ... '.?'■