IMPERIAL POLITICS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 9790, 5 March 1910, Page 8

IMPERIAL POLITICS.

A FACETIOUS PEER. United Press Association—By Electrio " Telegraph—Copyright. (Received March 5, 8.50 a.m.) LONDON, March 4.

Lord Lansdowne has given notice of i motion to inquire of the Government is to the delay in the production of the Budget.

A MINISTERIAL APPOINTMENT. (Received March 5, 12.15 p.m.) LONDON, March 4. Mr C. E. Mallet, M.P., has been J appointed Financial Secretary to the War Office. THE GOVERNMENT OBDURATE. UNCOLLECTED INCOME TAX. O)RD EVELYN CECIL PRESENTS HIS CHEQUE. LONDON, March 4. In the House of Commons, Lord Evelyn Cecil drew attention to the fact that the. authorities had refused a cheque for the amount of his income tax. He accused the Government of adopting a fatuous policy in order to spite the House of Lords, t Mr Asquith, replying, stated that the House of Lords was entirely responsible for the confusion that existed. He refused to depart from the principle or forty years' standing and to divide, the Budget into parts for the purpose of mitigating the damaging results of the action of the House of Lords. i Mr Lloyd George said that the demand for a separate Income Tax Bill wu a piece of hypocrisy.