IMPERIAL POLITICS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2732, 10 February 1910, Page 5

IMPERIAL POLITICS.

STATEMENT BY LLOYD-GEORGE

United Press Association—Copyright

LONDON, Feb. 8

Mr. Lloyd-George lias returned to London. Being interviewed lie said the Government must deal with the House of Lords first. He was unwilling to discuss the Budget,. pending a Cabinet meeting.

AN ELECTION RETURN. The election for Glasgow and Aberdeen University resulted: —Sir Henry Craik, Unionist, 4879; Pollock, Union-

ist Freetrader, 3411. [There is no change in the representation of these Universities. Sir Henry Craik represented them in the last Parliament.]

THE LABOR CONFERENCE. (Beceived February 9, 10 p.m.) LONDON, Feb. 9

The Labor Conference, after a private discussion of the Osborne judgment, resolved that unions ought to be allowed to engage in political activity, provided their members agree and their actions are specified in the union rules as part of their declared objects.

THE HOUSE OF LORDS—A BEFOBM PBOPOSED.

Mr. Griffiths, M.P. for Wedensbury, writing to the ‘‘Daily Mail,” proposes that the Upper House ‘be curtailed to 3200, the colonies to be asked to nominate 40 members, to act when on Imperial work, Canada to have 10, Australia 8, and the others proportionately. He adds: “An Imperial navy is now an urgent necessity. The dominions perceive the need and begin to build! Unless they are given a chance of expressing their feelings in the management of the navy, Britain cannot expect any fixed method or percentage of contribution. We have had enough of slamming the door in the face of the colonies.”