THE CHURCH IN WALES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 9498, 30 April 1894, Page 5

THE CHURCH IN WALES.

DISESTABLISHMENT BILL. ~ OPINIONS OF THE PRESS. Press Association.—Electric Telegraph.Copyright, London, April 27. - In the House of Commons, Six. Asquith the Home Secretary, moved to introduce a Bill for the Disestablishment of the Church in Wales and Monmouthshire, to come into operation in January, 1896. The measure, which is: of a highly complicated character., follows broadly on the lines of the disestablishment of the Irish Church. Commissioners are empowered to ultimately apply the Church funds to Parish and County Councils, hospitals, and to institutions for technical and higher education. Cathedrals are treated as national property, and every incumbent will retain his life interest in the office, parsonage, and glebe, receiving from the Commission the net proceeds of-the tithes. The Times: characterises the Bill as a gigantic bribe to the ratepayers to spoliate the Church. The Standard says the Government has no intention of passing the Bill in the present Parliament. London, April 28. 1 The proposal for a Scotch Grand Committee will be carried, the Government concession having been accepted. The Scotch Radicals complain that by , the concession the Government whittled away the value of the Grand Committee. The Scotch Local Government Bill has been read a first time.