IMPERIAL POLITICS

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIIC, Issue 14322, 12 October 1910, Page 5

IMPERIAL POLITICS

A CHANGE OF POLICY. HOME RULE—ALL ROUND. Press Association —By Tel. —Copyright. LONDON, Oct. 10. Mr O'Brien, speaking at Dunmanway, said that Messrs Redmond and 'Connor at a moment's notice, declared for devolution, wliich they liad been denouncing for seven years. They bad thrown over the Glaclstonian scheme of Home Rifle for the sake of subscriptions from a few American millionaires and politicians. Mr Tim Healey said Messrs Redmond and O'Connor bad dropped Home Rule for Ireland and substituted Home Rule all round. That meant lrelnnd must wait till the freslily hatched claims of Wales and Scotland were attended to.

THE OSBORNE DECISION. Mr John ard. Labour member, spealcing at Cheadle, sa.id that the Osborne decision was the resu'lt of a spirit of intolerance which had swept over Trades Unionism after the formation of the Labour Party. The insistence on the pledge at the Newcastle conference was a. tremendous blunder. The reversal of the Osborne decision might take years. He advocated payment of members as a partial solution of rhe difficulty.

Mr Keir Hardie, speaking at Newmilns. said that tlie only issue of ihe Osborne judgment was whether the workers were free to have their own members if they paid for them or 'whether they must- take what representation their betters were willing to allow them.

A BYE-ELECTION. At the by-election for AValthanustcnr Mr J. S. Johnson is again opposed by Mr J. A. Simon. [Mr Simon, who is a Liberal, was the sitting member until recently.] THE VETO CONFERENCE. Received 10.5 p.m., Oct. 11th. LONDON, Oct. 11. Mr J. A. Simon at Waltliamstow denied that the Liberals had broken the truce in relation to the Veto Conference. The results of the Conference would soon be known, and the sooner the better, the Liborals said, but they must wait patiently. Mr Scott-'Dckson, Unionist, in a speech at Hamilton, Lanarkshire, said ho hoped, but lie could not say he expected, that the Conference would be productive of good results.