BRITISH POLITICS.
THE DAYLIGHT SAVING.- BILL. KEIR HARDIE AT" OXFORD. - A BY-ELECTION. ?rbss Association.— Copxbighx.) LONDON, Saturday. The ' new Daylight Saving Bill, to advance the clock an nour in April, and set it back au hour in September, v increasingly supported in business circles. The Labour members opposed tho second reading, which" Mr Winston Churchill (President of -the- Board of Trade) and 'Mr Lloyd George. (Chancellor of the Exchequer). ; supported, while the Government was neutral; The second reading was carried by 130 to 94: The' minority consisted mostly of agricultural members. The Oxford under-graduates refused Mr Keir Hardie, MJP., ; a hearing at the Town Hall, : and. pelted th© plat--form with eggs and oranges. The meet- -.. 'r ing -ehded'.in a free fight; : ' ( The by-election for Hawick Burghs, rendered necessary by the elevation of theOßt; -Hon. ~T. Shaw to the Bench, '.- - resulted in' the return of Sir John Bar(Liberal), with 3028 votes. Mr H. . ■--"■ J." Mackinde? (Tariff Reformer) polled >:_._, ; 2sqe.- ..- \. y ■'-■-' ' j
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLIII, Issue XLIII, 8 March 1909, Page 3
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