BRITISH POLITICS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXVIII, Issue 7978, 5 March 1906, Page 5

BRITISH POLITICS.

IHE PAYMENT OF MEMBERS

LONDON, March 2,

Mr W. H. Lever, member for Wirral, intends to move iu the House of Commons—That it is urgently required that the members of the House of Commons should received £3OO a year, and that all returning officers' charges be paid out of rates.

THE GREAT PROBLEM OF POVERTY.

LONDON, March 2. * Sir James Kitaoo (Liberal) having given notice to move a Freetrade resolution, Mr P. Snowden, Labour member for Blackburn, aave notice of an amendment declaring that neither Freetrade nor Protection would enable the country to solve the great problem of poverty.

THE INDISPOSED STATESMEN.

ALL PROGRESSING SATISFACTORILY.

LONDON, March 2. Sir Henry Oampbell-Bannerman, Mr Balfour and Mr Chamberlain, who have been absent from the Bouse owing to illness, are progressing satisfactorily towards recovery.

CORRUPTION BILL. '

LONDON, March 2. The Prevention of Corruption Bill providing for the punishmeut of corrupt transactions with political agents, has been read a second time in the House of Commons.

THE CONSERVATIVE PARTY

SPEECH BY SIR EDWARD

CLARKE

Received March 4, 4.55 p.m. LONDON, Maroh 3. Sir Edward Clarke, speaking at Holborn, 9aid that he was convinced that the Conservative party would be unable to hop« to recover its influence in the country's aounoils unless it freed itself absolutely and completely from auy proposal of taxation on corn and meat.

CHINESE LABUUR ON THE RAND.

MR WINSTON CHURCHILL'S RECENT SPEECH.

JOHANNESBURG RESENTFUL.

SOUTH AFRICAN STOCKS DEPRESSED.

Received March 4, 4.27 p.m. ' LONDON, March 3. Mr Winston Churchill's description of Lord Milner's views are denounced in Johannesburg as a huge mia-representation, as shown by Lord Milner's speech when farewelling at Johannesburg, when he pleaded for an intelligent; ami sympathetic native policy. The advocation of Lord Milner of the appointment of an intercolonial commission on native affairs is also cited. The Times' Johannesburg correspondent states that the country is becoming alarmed at the Cabinet's ignorance in regard to the all South African matters. "It makes," Bays the correspondent, "an important statement on Chinese labour before it reads the ordinance, while Mr Churchill made attacks op Lord Milner's native policy without knowing what it was. Ex-Ueneral Botha a week ago declared that Lord Milner had pardoned the Kaffirs and Indiana at the expense of the' Boers." The Daily Telegraph's Johannesburg correspondent emphasises the resentment felt at Mr Churchill's interference with the problem which the whites, irrespective of race, regard as peculiarly their own. In the general colonial, and especially the Boer opinion, it is considered that Lord Milner's views regarding the future of the industrial, sodial and political development of the coloured races is dangerously advanced. The Stock Exchange is depressed owing to fear of the Government's policy in South Africa. . All the Kaffir shares have fallen considerably, some lower than for many years. The dullness is reflected in other markets. The agent for Mr Verney, Liberal candidate, for Bainiostobe, refuses to remove the Chinese slavery cartoons which the Government repudiated in recent debates.