IMPERIAL POLITICS

Timaru Herald, Volume XCIV, Issue 14392, 6 January 1911, Page 6

IMPERIAL POLITICS

♦ . BENEVOLENT LABOUR LAW. Press Assooiation—By Tel.—Copyright LONDON, Jan. 4. Mr Lloyd George's provisional scheme of sickness and invalidity insurance iias been printed. It proposes to oper.ito through the present voluntary societies on the basis of the compulsion of ail workers whoso earnings are below; £l6O a year. They wilt make oontribu- ( ton to provide for a minimum benefis of five shillings a week, to which til State guarantee will bo restricted meet one half. The workman insures the remafci<jbr in equal proportion with his employer and the State. An insurance beyond tho minimum voluntary. LABOUR PARTY PLEDGE. Tins executive of the Lab.iur Tar 1 i propose to replace the old' third clans j ni I In; constitution at a conference j b • Lu.'d at Loi.-esLer on February Ist 1 T!i ■ now Ciausc vequiros electoral can-dit.h-in.-s ; to strictly abstain from proj u-.ot-ng other ..ntorcsts than those of ihz j U.hviii- Party. The executive claim I that tlic new claus."; puts Labour on the same footing as the Liberals and Tories-. INDIANS FOR NATAL. CALCUTTA, Jan. k. The Government is prohibiting the emigration ,of further indentured 'ab our to Natal from July Ist. Gokhal lias expressed tho gratitude of thu Indians lor this measure. The news I papers declare that the prohibition will: be -popular owing to t«:e shortage j laliDiir for the coal and tea industries, in India. ADDING TO THE NAVY. The new Dreadnought. Centurion will be begun at Davenport next week A battleship being laid down is to be named King George Fifth ?>\iot the Royal George. Besides the Commonwealth's cruisers Melbourne and Sydney, twelve others of the town class are built, building, or ordered, including one shortly building at Chatham to be named Chatham, and two others, built by private contract, to be mimed Dublin and Soutliamnton Tw» Dreadnoughts of the CenturiJn class will ' shortly be building by private contract, I named Ajax and Audacious.