WELSH DISESTABLISHMENT.
THE EXPECTED HAPPENS
Electbic Telegbaph—Coptbiqht.) (Psa P&KBS Association.) tu tt , LONDON, Feb. 14. ,® House of Lords rejected the Welsh Disestablishment Bill bv votes to 51. (The procedure with the Welsh Disestablishment Bill will be the same as with the Home Rule Bill. The Lords' assent is not necessary provided the measure passes the Commons in three consecutive sessions covering a period oi two years.] A PRESS OPINION. LONDON, Feb. 14. The Pall Mall Gazette savs that in the House of Lords Earl Crewe, who wound up the debate, said that if the Nonconformists had accepted a penny of the Welsh Church endowments (in teims of an amendment) the Oppositionists would accuse them of a desire to collar their share of the swag in a great robbery of the Church.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 9419, 15 February 1913, Page 5
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WELSH DISESTABLISHMENT.
Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 9419, 15 February 1913, Page 5
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