PASSIVE RESISTANCE.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIII, Issue 50, 28 February 1907, Page 7

PASSIVE RESISTANCE.

| RELIEF BILL. IRISH OPPOSITION IRRITATES NONCONFORMISTS. Ipbess AasociAiioir.') LONDON, 27th February. In the Houso of Commons yesterday leave was granted, by 264 votes to 109, for the introduction of a Bill by tho President of the Board of Education, Mr. R. M'Kenna — the Passive Resistors'. Relief Bill. The measure provides that the education authority may, after paying teachers their full salary, recover onefifteenth of the amount from tha Boards of Managers of unprovided schools (that is, denominational or voluntary schools) as its fraction of the salarios of teachers giving denominational instruction. I Mr. Balfour (leader of the Opposition) aaid that under the Bill denominationalists would still pay rates for a form- of teaching that was unsatisfactory to them, and they would be asked to pay again' for that which they wanted. The measure would not bring peace much nearer. The minority against introduction of the Bill included forty-five Irish Nationalists. Their ' forcing of a division against the Bill greatly irritated the Nonconformist group. AN EMINENT RESISTER. PRESENTATION TO DR. CLIFFORD. (Received February 28, 8.58 a.m.) LONDON, 27th February. Admirers of the Rev. Dr. John Clif- j ford have presented him with an annuity of £400, a cheque for £420, and an investment of £1000, as a national testimonial, on his seventieth birthday. The Rev. Dr. Clifford is the leading minister of tho Congregationalist Church at Home, and stands in tho forefront of the passive resistors. In tho nineties he visited New Zealand, and preached in Wellington.

Attention is directed to the Free Health Talk to ladies on "Good Health for Womanhood in Nature's Own Way," to be given at tho Viavi Rooms, Australia Chambers, to-morrow after* noon. A large congregation assembled in the Vjvian-street Church last evening to hear the Rev. Joliu Urquhart's lecture on Exodus. The lectuip was of cngHirahtg interest and was delivsju-H with the utmost vigour. At tho cloeo of the lecturu a largo number of questions v.-eie answered, -Air. (Ji<i«luiit left to-duy by the Wunnnoo for Melbourne. Mcseri. W. B. Clionnolla and Co. adverliso for ituls an ontats in Southnnv Quooiuland, which li being offered at a ipeolfil pries. P*rtlcuJ»ri »ro nivcxtljßd.