IMPERIAL POLITICS.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 300, 9 December 1911, Page 5

IMPERIAL POLITICS.

INSURANCE BILL. FRIENDLY SOCIETIES’ PETITION. [ PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. ] London, Dec. S. The Friendly Societies have petitioned the House of Lords to amend the Insurance Bill so as to enable the payment of sickness benefit from the day of . illness instead of the fourth. The British Constitution Association urges the House of Lords to reject or submit the bill to a ]mll oi the people. IRISH HOME RULE. CORRUPT POLITICAL BARGAIN Mr. Bonar Law. speaking at Bootle. emphasising that it was utterly impossible that Home Puile should be carried as pan of the Liberals' corrupt political bargain, remarked that although the grant of Home Rule from a. party standpoint word'd be of advantage to the I nionis!s inasmuch as the Nationalists were determined to oppose Home Rule to the last gasp. Mlien the time came there would be no shrinking from strong action to defeat one of the most ignoble conspiracies ever formed against the liberties of freeborn men. COAL MINERS’ BILL. (Received 9. 10.50 a.m.) London, Dec. 8. The Coal Mines Bill was read a second time in the House of Lords. HOUSING OF WORKING CLASSES. UNIONIST SOCIAL REFORM PROPOSAL. (Received 9. 8.15 a.m.) London, Dec. 8. Colonel Griffiths- Boscawen intro-, duced the Unionist Social Reform Committee’s Housing of M orking Classes Bill, in which it is proposed to clear away slums and provide accommodation in town and country districts, the Treasury to gran! £1,000,000 yearly and local authorities to aid the net cost. The authorities’ operations will be under the supervision of three homing commissioners, one of whom is to lie a medical officer of health.