IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.
The Western Australian Constitution Bill has passed the House of Commons. Tfie paaaa^g of tho bill wan warmly cheered.
| Replying to a question in tho House of Commons, Baron de Worms stated that the I coloni.il Government would have to provide fortifications and reserves for the defenoe of Albany, but Great Britain would supply the armament.
Tho Procoedare Cimniitteo of the House of C\ mni-fua approved oi the suggestion that G >verument Bills Bhould be resumed at the
same stage u<-xi session. By a majority of two tho Committee r> j cted Mr Gladstone* report against tho Government suspensionary soliftni), Fiftc-ca thousand Newfoundlanders have petl ionccl the House of Commons pr*ying P-trlinmonfc to grant them relief from French oppression, The position presented by publicans in favor of compensation haa been rejected on the grounds that many of tho signatures are in the aaine handwriting, and also that a few of them nro obscene.
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Bruce Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 2181, 8 July 1890, Page 3
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