IMPERIAL POLITICS.
+ THE FINANCI AL ARRANGEMENTS. BORROWING POWERS EXTENDED. United Preßs Association—By Electrlr. Telegraph—Copyright (Received March 3, 8.10 a.m.) LONDON, March 2. The House of Commons empowered the Treasury to extend its borrowing from March till the end of September, and to transfer £0,300,000 of the sinkin,? fund to the financial service of the year. Of this amount £8,500,000 actually formed part of -Mr Lloyd George's Budget. WHERE IS THE BUDGET? AUSTEN CHAMBERLAIN AND LLOYD GEORGE. , LONDON, March 2. The Unionist papers jeeringly a&k what baa become of the Budget, and protest against the Government's refusal to adopt Mr Austen Cliamberlain's suggestion to pass the income tax resolutions forthwith. Speaking, in the House of Commons, Mr Austeiv Ohambferlaiii stated that it would be May or June before the last year's taxes could be collected. Mr Lloyd George replied that, the ch'aos was due to the unprecedented action of the House of Lords. The Government scheme had to be considered as a whole, and therefor© it was impossible to introduce the resolutions earlier.
BY-ELECTIONS. LONDON, March 2. Mr Maurice Healy, IndependentNationalist, has been elected unopposed for North-east Cork. Mr E. J. Soares has been re-elected unopposed for Barnstaple.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 9788, 3 March 1910, Page 2
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