IMPERIAL POLITICS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 8052, 4 August 1904, Page 2

IMPERIAL POLITICS.

ENGLISH LICENSING BBLL. [PBESS ASSOCIATIOK.I {Received August 3, 10.26 p.m!) LONDON, August 3. in the House of Lords Viscount Peel's* amendment to the Licensing BUI wa» re- ' jected by 142 votes to 47/ and the bill ■ was read a second time. ' BILLS DROPPED. LONDON, August 3. in the House of Commons the Government has dropped the Scotch Education and the Butter Bills. < MR CHAMBERLAINS SUGGESTIONS. (Received August 3, 11.36 p.m.) LONDON, August 3. Lord Roaebery, in a letter published in the Times, declares that under certalri (imitations, he welcomes the proposal fds a colonial conference, which would do good only if earnestly desired by the Outet Bntains with the Mptherland. The basis' of the conference would have to be pffl* arranged. Both parties'. reprMentativeV I must be men of national weight.