BRITISH POLITICS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXV, Issue 122, 23 May 1908, Page 5

BRITISH POLITICS.

PROBABLE FATE OF EDUCATION BILL. OLD AGE PENSIONS. MINERS' EIGHT HOURS' BILL. 8/ Teleirr«ph.— Press Association.—Copyright(Received May 23, 8.0 a.m.) LONDON, 22nd May. The Telegraph is doubtful whether the Government will proceed with the Education and Miners' Eight Hours' Bills this session, owing to the necessity for concentrating attention, on the pensions and licensing measures. IRISH TENANTS. A BILL TO OVERCOME A DIFFICULTY. (Received 1 May 23, 9 a.m.) LONDON, 22nd May. In the House of Commons, the Right Hon. A. Birrell, Chief Secretary for Ireland, announced' a short Bill to make clear — with the consent ,of the occupying planter — that the Irish Estates Commissioners may reinstate evicted tenants. _ Recently, the Court of Appeal at Dublin, over-ruling Mr. Justice Wylie's decision, declared that despite the fact of planters or farmers planted on estates in place of evicted tenants offering to dispose of their interests to the Esate Commissioners^ in order 'to facilitate the reinstatement of evicted tenants, the commissioners were debarred from acquiring such land against the will of the landlords. The case arose out of the proposed acquisition under the Evicted Tenants' Act, 19D7 V of 4000 acres of the Clanricarde Estate.