BRITISH POLITICS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLI, Issue 306, 15 November 1906, Page 2

BRITISH POLITICS.

1 THE NAVAL SUPREMACYQUESTION. 1 (Cll!''■' , T>ress Association. 'J ~ j —Copyright). LONDON". Wednesday. Mr Edmund Robertson, Secretary to the Admiralty, in reply to questions as to Germany beginning 12 destroyers yearly, snid the Admiralty's'settled policy in framing its shipbuilding programme was to meet only those Toreign programmes actually sanctioned by the respective Parliaments. It was also guided by the progress in construction abroad . THE EDUCATION" BILL. DTSS\TISFACTION WITH TITE LORDS. LONDON". Wednesday. Mr 'Birrekl, spanking at Bristol, said tho Lords' Education Bill was the off-spring of the mixed marriage of Church and State, and inherited tho weakniossi'S of both par. ents without the strength of either. . The Government had no use for ' such a measure, which, from the Commons standpoint of Liberal or Tory was seon to be an impossibility" Everybody would declare i the Act of 1902 far preferable. He hoped tho Lords would, early, recognise that they had gone too far and accept our Bill, which, according to the pledges we have given, we intend to keep, otherwise the constitution must be altered. Irv admissable measures backed b\ great electoral majorities could not be mutilated or destroyed b.v an unrepresentative assembly.