BRITISH POLITICS.

Bush Advocate, Volume XXI, Issue 96, 21 October 1908, Page 5

BRITISH POLITICS.

', ..■ "_ .,"«». .... . . . J Assn-^By telegraph— Copyright. LONDON, yesterday. Mr T. McKinnon "Wood, Parlia- ] inentary Secretary to the Board of Education, has been appointed Un---deriSecretary to^the Foreign Office. 9ir~C P. Trevelyan succeeds. ._ Mr '-.'jSWjoo&i ■■..■< >■' ■.. .::■';■-■■. - • . . . THE CLOSURE. GOVERNMENT NARROWLY ESCAPE DEFEAT. OUTRAGES IN IRELAND. (Received this day, 8.30 a.m.) 1' y LONDON, yesterday. In tlie House of Commons, ■. Mr Kearley, member for Devonport (Liberal), /moved that it be an instruction -tfotteroommitffcee to. insert in the London Electricity. Supply. Bill a clause giving the county, council the ultimate powetr of ptirohase. Mr Churchill's motion for the closure of the debate was resisted by the 'Radicals^and Laborites, but was oar- ■ '■ Ixied by .153 to 144, amid cries of "Resign!" Mr Kearlev's motion was carried by 212 to 79. The Cbtildrens Bill passed the third leading. " Mr^Birreir, iii* reply to Mr Craig, said that 234 agrarian outrages in Ireland were reported to the constabulary for the whole of 1906 , 372 in 1907, and 418 for nine months of 908 ,, - -