IMPERIAL POLITICS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2751, 4 March 1910, Page 5

IMPERIAL POLITICS.

BORROWING •POWERS EXTENDED

United Press Association —Copyright LONDON, March 2. The House of Commons empowered the Treasury to extend its borrowing, from March till the end of September; to transfer £6,300,000 of sinking fund to the financial service of the year. A sum of £3,500,000 therefore actually formed part of Mr. Lloyd-Gocrge’s Budget. Mr. Maurice Healy, Independent Nationalist, has been elected unopposed for North-East Cork. Mr. E. .J.iSoares has been re-elected unopposed for Barnstable. Unionist papers jeeringly ask what has become of the Budget, and protest against the Government’s refusal to adopt Mr. Austen Chamberlain's suggestion to pass the Income Tax resolutions forthwith. Speaking in the House of Commons Mr. Austen Chamberlain stated that it would he May or June before the last' year’s taxes were collected. Mr. Lloyd-George replied that the state of chaos was due to the unprece dented action of 'the House of Lords The Government scheme had to be con sidered as a whole. Therefore it was impossible to introduce resolutions ear. Her.

THE IRISH STANDPOINT. (Received March 3, 10.30 p.m.) LONDON, March 3. Mr. Maurice Healy, in a. speech to his constituents, said that Mr. Redmond was armed with a cracked blunderbuss, and was ready to vote against the Government when every regular Oppositionist refrained.

Mr. O’Brien taunted, Mr. Redmond with resting upon an academical resolution which the Lords would light their pipes with. The Redmonites and Radicals would then return to the electorates to meet a sounder drubbing than before.

Mr. Redmond, acknowledging American contributions to the party fund, predicts a genera] election before many weeks. THE NAVAL VOTE, The Supplementary Estimates, amounting to £689,100, including £45,700 for preliminary "work for four contingent Dreadnoughts, ■ wthicb will be laid down on the Ist April, were agreed to after a short discussion between Mr. A. H. Lee, Lord, of the Admiralty, Lord Charles' Beresford, and Mr. Richard McKenna.

The Unionist leader in the House- of Lords intends to introduce proposals regarding the reform of the House- of Lords firstly by declaratory resolutions.

It is now stated that the navy estimates will total forty-one millions.