IMPERIAL POLITICS.
TENDENCY TOWARDS SOCIALISM
feared; to be affecting BRITISH CREDIT.
United Press Association. Copyright
LONDON, Jan. 21
Mr. HaTdane, speaking at Birmingham, .admitted the existence of a widespread fear that the tendency towards. Socialism was affecting British credit. Ho declared that there was plenty of capital available if investors only had confidence. The Conservative Central Office has resolved not to support free food conditions at the next election unless the party unreservedly adopted Mr. Balfour’s tariff reforms policy as outlined at the Birmingham conference in November,, 1907.
IRISH LAND PURCHASE
AN OP TIMISTJC PRE JI ICTI ON
(Received Jan. 22, 10.25 p.m.)
LONDON, Jan. 22. Sir Horace Blanket, speaking at Birmingham, urged the completion ol the land purchase scheme lor Ireland, and said that if Ireland was decently
governed for the next twenty years
the money advanced would be abso- \ lately secure. A thousand societies of farmers., with, one hundred thousand members, had been formed since 1889. The turnover greatly exceeded two million sterling.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2407, 23 January 1909, Page 5
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165IMPERIAL POLITICS. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2407, 23 January 1909, Page 5
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