ADDRESS-IN-REPLY.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 50, 9 February 1911, Page 1

ADDRESS-IN-REPLY.

SOUTH WALES STRIKE. POLICE INQUIRY DEMANDED. [MUSS ASSOCIATION. -COPYRIGHT. . (Received 9, 8.5 a.m.) London, Feb. 8. Messrs. Abraham (“Mabon”)and Keir Hardie demanded a commission to enquire into the charges against the police of assault during the South Wales strike. Mr. Churchill, in view of the high character of the Metropolitan police, refused to consent to a general enquiry, but said he would investigate individual charges. A VITUPBRATIVE DEBATE.

In the House of Commons the debate on the Address-in-reply was continued. Mr. Campbell (Dublin University) arraigned Mr. Birrell for inaction with regard to the papal decree on marriage, and even with refusing to intervene in the case of Mrs. McCann, whose children were taken away because she refused to be re-married in a Catholic church when the priest alleged her offspring to be illegitimate. Mr. Birrell said that the McCann ease was distressing, but the wife’s redress was through a civil court. The Presbyterian ministers were less interested in the woman than in using her case as an example of what would happen when Ireland secured Home Rule. A vituperative debate followed between the Irish Unionists and Nationalists, the latter stating that Mrs. McCann’s bad 'emper was the cause of hei »*;:nd hiding the children. FISCAL AMENDMENT. Mr. Austen Chamberlain moved the Opposition’s fiscal amendment to the Address-in-Reply. LABOUR’S LUCK OUT. (Received 9, 10.55 a.m.) London, Feb. 8. A ballot for priority of introduction of Private Members Bills failed to give the Labourites a place even in the first thirty.