BRITISH POLITICS.

Hokitika Guardian, 8 May 1924, Page 2

BRITISH POLITICS.

tUSTKAMAN AND N. 7.. CADMi ASSOCIATION NKW EVICTION BILL. LONDON. May 3. 'I lio House of Conitnons road for tho third tinn*. Mr Rimsam's Eviction Rill. Mr Baldwin pave notice of a motion that it is not expedient to ioniorc the McKenna Duties amidst tho present distresses. FATHER'S WILD DEFEATED. LONDON. May 7. Tile House of Lords has iinaiiinions|y decided that an aunt was not entitled to demand tho custody of her dead lumber's children in order that they may ho brought up in the Catholic Faith. .V father, an Irish Catholic, left instructions in his will that his throe girls, now aped cloven, .seven, and five years, should he brought up iti the Roman Catholic Faith, hut the mother, after his death, reverted to Ulster Presbyterianism. Then the mother died. *iie Protestant grandparents educated the child ■•• all. 'I lie I loose of i ,-rds decided that, though the father’s wishes shoilid h • taken into aeioiint. l onsidera- j lions of tile welfare of (lie children ! should prevail. In this i n-o. the eldest : pill, aped 11. had acquired settled run- ' vii lions in favor of Protestantism, and th younger children should not Ik* separated from the eldest one.

REPLIES TO QUESTIONS. i Ro.c-ived this dnv at 0.13 a.m.i ' LONDON. .May 7. Replying in tho Common* to Sir Eddard Origg, Mr Snowdon said it was calculated that tho annual interest charge paybie hy British taxpayer on loan* made hy the- Allies diirinp the ' war exceeded one hundred millions . sterlilip. l A propa-al to stahilise preference on j Empire supar tit fifty one pence halfpenny per hundred weight for one year as compared to ten years as recommended at the Imperial conference, wtis made in an amendment moved by Sir Mit'-hcil Tiiompson in the course 1 of the hitdpct discussion. The mover { advanced a strong pica on behalf of | the crown colonies, specially concerned. The amendment was rejected by iMt! to ]<•_>.