IMPERIAL POLITICS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2557, 19 July 1909, Page 5

IMPERIAL POLITICS.

A BY-ELEC IiON. LABOR-SOCIALIST VICTORY. United Press Association—Copyright - LONDON, July 16. The Mid-Derby election resulted: Hancock 6735, Greswell 4392. [The election was the result of the death of Sir A. Jacoby, Liberal, who at the last general election defeated Air S. Cresswell, Conservative, by 7065 to 3475. Air. Hancock is a Labor-Social-ist, bni was supported by the Liberal party generally.] ( LAND CLAUSES DENOUNCED. INJURE INTERESTS OF CULTURE.Sir Robert W. Perks, AI.P. for the Louth Division of Lancashire, speaking at Loath, strenuously denounced the land clauses of the Budget, alleging that they would injure the interests of agriculture. , THE EDUCATION ACJ. A REGULATION WITHDRAWN. (Received July 18, 5 p.m.) LONDON, July 17. Under Nonconformist pressure, Mr. W. Runciinan (President of the Committee on Education), has withdrawn the regulation in the Education Act requiring colleges to provide training to prepare students for giving instruction inf arid explanation of the Bible. THE TRADE BILL. READ A THIRD TIME. The Trade Board Bill has been a' third time. Some Unionist amendments directed against foreign sweated goods, also to prevent work from being Tent outside the United' Kingdom in cases where minimum wages are fixed, were made the ground for introducing the fiscal question. THE LORDS AND THE BUDGET. THE MARQUIS OF LANDSOWNE’S OMINOUS DECLARATION. The Marquis of Lansdowne, speaking at a Conservative Association banquet, declared that while he maintained an attitude of reserve regarding the fate of the Budget, he would remark that the House of Lords was unlikely to proclaim that they had no responsibility regarding the Finance Bill, and were-obliged to swallow it whole without mincing it. Apart from text-book authorities, and looking at the question from a commonsense standpoint, it was unthinkable that where there were two legislative chambers, it should be left absolutely to the discretion of one of them to impose burdens, however monstrous, taxation, however inequitable, and a new financial system, however subversive of society. The Lords were, obliged to consider the question with an open mind, undeterred by threats and vapourings. [The Marquis' of Landsowne is the leader of the Opposition in the House of Lords.]