IMPERIAL POLITICS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2696, 29 December 1909, Page 5

IMPERIAL POLITICS.

NA VY league issues poster. United Press Association —Copyright. LONDON, Dec. 27. The Navy League issued a poster to •the effect that every candidate refusing to acept the two-keels-to-one standard was a traitor to the country. It urges the electors to drop party,, and vote for. a supreme navy. Green, treasurer of the Social-Demo-cratic party, has withdrawn his candidature for Bristol South. ADVICE TO IRISH ELECTORS. (Received December 28, 9.10 p.m.) LONDON, Dec. 28. Mr. T. P. O’Connor recommends the Irish electors in England to vote according to the Irish League’s manifesto. . [Mr. T. P. O’Connor is an M.P. for Liverpool, and belongs to the Irish Nationalist party.] THE PEERS AND THE ELECTION. (Received December 28, 11.30 p.m.) . Peers are to address two-thirds of 165 Unionist meetings in the next ■ eleven days. Lord Londonderry, in a letter, says -that the election will be fought on the issue of constitutionalism versus Soc--ialism. A DUKE’S DECLARATION. The Duke of Sutherland, in a letter to his employees and pensioners, says that if the owner of land is compelled to pay increased taxation he cannot spend the same as heretofore on his -estate and in wages, and that tariff reform is the only alternative.