IMPERIAL POLITICS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2328, 22 October 1908, Page 5

IMPERIAL POLITICS.

OLD AGE PENSIONS. HOME RULE. AGRARIAN OUTRAGES. United Press Association. Copyright LONDON, Oct. 20. Mr. T. McKinnon Wood, Parliamentary Secretary for the Board of Education, has been appointed Under- % Secretary for the Foreign Office. Mr. 0. P. Trevelyan succeeds Mr. Wood. Mr. Lloyd-George states that up to Saturday 273,862 claims for old age pensions had been presented in England, 13,160 in Ireland, 49,077 in Scotland, and 13,613 in Wales. Mr. Kearley moved that it be an instruction to- the committee to insert in the London Electricity Supply Bill a clause giving the County Council v. ul ii mate power to purchase. On Mr. Churchill’s motion the closure of the debate, which was resisted by Radicals and Laborites, was carried by 1-53 to 144, amid cries of ‘ ‘Resign,” and the instruction was carby 212 to 79. ' ' The Children’s Bill was read a third time. N Afr. Birrell informed Mr. Craig that 234 agrarian outrages had been reported by -the constabulary for the whole of 1906, 372 in 1907, and 418 for 9 months of 1908. Mr. Asquith states that Mr. Churchill’s reference to Home Rule in his recent speech at Dundee was made on his own- responsibility. Mr. Asquith adheres to his" declaration made early in-the session. While the House of Commons was discussing the Children’s Bill an old Whitechapel Jew, from the strangers’ gallery, tossed a bundle of papers on

“IfcAke floor of the House, exclaiming: “Read my scheme' for dealing with unemployment.” He was ejected after being admonished.

AN IMPERIAL PROBLEM. THE COLONIES’ AMBITIONS. United Press Association, Copyright (Received Oct. 21, 8.45 p.m.) LONDON, Oct. 21." %- The “Times” says that the problem 'is the reconciliation of the growing forces of nationalism in the autono- £ moue dominions with the principle of common aims and common action in questions affecting the Empire as a whole. Tho “Times” advises Imperial statesmen to acquaint themselves first-hand with the feeling and ambitions) of the colonies. THE LICENSING BILL. k THE TWO-THIRDS MAJORITY. United Press Association, Copyright. (Received Oct.. 21, 9.35- p.m.) 'LONDON, Oct. 21. In tho House of Commons, the Government’s amendment to clause 3 of the Licensing Bill was adopted by a majority of 160. The clause provide? for a two-thirds _ majority for local veto purposes after the end of the time limit.