THE HOME ELECTIONS.

Tuapeka Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 5335, 27 January 1906, Page 4

THE HOME ELECTIONS.

SPEECH FROM THE PREMIER. Sir Henry Gampbe^Bannerman, speaking at Larbert, said he was qelighted that the old delusion that the Unionists were the special guardians »of</thft«agricultural interests and this particular friend of the farm laborer, was knocked on rthe head* • There was a tremendous disproportion of power, and he confessed the Liberal 1 tnajofity* enormously increased the, -responsibility of the Government. *- • TARIFF REFORM NOT YET/. DEAD. ] Mr Chamberlain, speaking at Hales£ sowen, admitted it was unexpected,, "that there would be anything like such.' a political revolution. Tariff reforhip although postponed, was not deadj* and would-yet^be naeknawledged the, only political rrennedy foii the distress confronting''Engh'Sh trade v and work 5 men - , J', The elections were one huge Raa^ X cal log-rolling operation. - -■■■ - ACTING LEADER OF THE [ OPPOSITION. Mr A. Akers-Douglas will be Leader of the Opposition party in Parliament until Mr Balfour finds a seat. ? A» SOCIALIST MAULED. Cornish miners badly mauled Thorne, a Socialist commoner, at. West Ham South,. who was attempting to support the ' Socialist candidate' Camborne* . MR HALDANE ON CHINESE "" LABOR. Mr Haldane, speaking at Drem, Haddingtonshire, said he never was an' extreme opponent of Chinese labor. If the Transvaal wished to have the. Chinese the Liberals would wash their hands of the affair. ENGLISH CATHOLIC SCHOOLS/, -Mr Michael Davitt, in a remarkable letter to Freeman's Journal, rejoices in the approaching secularisation of English Catholic schools. He declares that the asinine stupidity of the Irish bishops at the instigation of Mr Redmond assisted Mr Balfour to enact the Education Act of 1902, which was the chief cause of the triumphant. The * Radical majority was pledged to secularise schools, but not pledged to Home Rule. ERIENDS OR FOES ? Capetown, January 23. Mr Hertzog, addressing a selfgovernment meeting at Bethulie, said that they- must agitate and declare their grievances, especially in the matter of compensation ; then they would soon know whether the new Government was their friend or foe. ANXIETY ON THE RAND. There is anxiety in Johannesburg at the -reported intention of the Government to. alter the Constitution to give the Boers greater power. A great public meeting is threatened. JUSTICE FOR- THE BOERS. Ex-President Steyn,"-* speaking at Dewetsdorp on the occasion -of the reinterment of some burghers killed in the war, urged mothers to remind their children of the sufferings of the concentration- camps. He thanked God for the new Government in Britain, which would do justice to, the Boers.

London, January 23. THE, STATE OF THE PARTIES. Liberals 312 , . Laborites 48 Nationalists 77 , fi Unionists 137 s ' * 574