BRITISH POLITICS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 17 May 1907, Page 3

BRITISH POLITICS.

THE IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

AN EDUCATION PROBLEM.

CONFERENCE QUESTIONS.

UNIFICATION OF NATURALISATION.

IRISH DISCONTENT.

MR HALDANE. AND THE FEMALE SUFFRAGISTS.

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(Received May 17> 8.40 a.m.) LONDON, Thursday. In the House of Commons, Mr David A. Thomas's Bill was read a first time. It proposes to give a local education authority two-thirds, instead of one-third representation in 'connection 'with the management Of non-provided schools. It was'stated in tihe debate that the Bill was urgently required in Wales. (Received May 17, 9.20 a.m.) LONDON, Thursday. In the Houtte of Lords, replying to Earl Russell's, question, Lord Loreburn, High Chancellor, stated that the great anomalies of naturalisation were fatal to the idea, of unity of citizenship within the British dominions. -He said no more thorny question was iinaKinable, but a subsidiary Imperial Conference would try to ascertain whether it waa possible to do anything in the" direction of unifying the laws ef naturalisation'" and common, citizenship of the Empire. The Executive of tho Irish National. Council have resolved that the Irish 'Council Bill is an insult to the Irish nation._ They call on the Irish members to withdraw from Parliament -ViuKretnrn to.Dublin to form an Asemblv which would claim representation at the Hague Conference, and press for a I settlement by an internatic-in 1 Court of Arbitration of the dispute between Ireland and England. Mr 'Haldane, Secretary -of St?, te f-r |War, speaking at a meeting in Lrndort, said the Imperial C'onferenoe had shown in the Conference that the Li- | berals had a constructive policy. They had done 'a great deal of business and laid the foundation of a great deal piore. "Twenty female suffragists howled ! down Mr Haldane, bnt were expelled amid great excitement.