BRITISH POLITICS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXVIII, Issue 7936, 9 January 1906, Page 5

BRITISH POLITICS.

THE CHINESE QUESTION. STATEMENTS BY LIBERAL LEADERS. Received January 8. 8.40 a.m. LONDON, January 7. Mr Lloyd George, President of the Board of Trade, speaking at Croydon, declared that tbe late Government on the eve of tho elections tricked the country by signing permits for tne introduction of 10,000 Chinese on the Rand, cocstituting an engagement only to be broken at gro.t expense. The Right Hon. H. J. Gladstone, speaking at Leeds, said the Rand mine-owners might enforce compensation to the extent of two or three millions. In an address at Manchester, Mr Winston Churchill said: "When a responsible Assembly meets in the Transvaal we must necessarily be guided by its opinions respecting the Chinese, but that would not settle the matter. It was premature to say what we would do before the Assembly speaks." THE HOME RULE PROMISES. Received January 8, 8.40 a.m. LONDON, January 7. , The Irish Nationalists are dissatisfied at tbe attempts of Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman's subordinates to minimise his promises iu regard to Home Rule. THE UNEMPLOYED. Received January 8, 8.40 a.m. LONDON, January 7. The Right Hon, John Morley told a deputation at Arbroath that the suggestion that the State ought to provide work at standard rates of wages was unsound and dangerous in principle. THE JURY. Received January 8, 8.40 a.m. LONDON, January 7. The total number of eieotois in Great Britain is 7,266,708. THE PRIME MINISTER'S ADDRESS. Received January 8, 9.51 p.m. LONDON, January g. Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman's address to bis constituents declares that his predecessors bequeathed him an absolutely appalling accumulation of' publio mischief and confusion. After four years' of costly experiments, demoralising to the regular volunteers, they resigned while still groping for the true principles of Army reform. Their fiscal policy was only a fairy story, fraught with incalculable mischief to the Empire. He condemned the "immoral and oppressive policy of protection." An Empire united on a basis of food taxes would be an Empire with a disruptive force in its centre. Mr Balfour's minor fiscal polioy occupied only a nominal place in the contest. Mr Chamberlain's larger policy must be fought. The Liberals are advocating peace, economy, selfgovernment, civil and religious liberty, social reforms and substantial continuity of tho foreign policy. Received January 8, 11.3 p.m. Tbe Times, commenting on tbe »b----senoe of tbe disclosure of a policy in Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman's election address, states that evidently he is determined to keep an absolutely free hand in order ; to apply the Liberal principles in any direction, and in such a measure as expediency dictates. PROTECTION AND TRADES UNIONISM. Received January 8, 11.3 p.m. LONDON, January 8. Mr J. Chamberlain, speaking at Birmingham, declared that free imports were the enemy of trade unionism and general commerce. Protection of labour was just as much opposed to free trade as protection of gcods.