BRITISH PARLIAMENT.
MB BALFOUR'S GOVERNMENT.
SHOULD THERE BE DISSOLUTION? CReccivcd August 11, 11.55 p.m.) LONDON, August 11. Replying in tho House of Commons to criticism by Air Fowler 'at his declining to dissolve, Air Balfour said; — “There is one test whether a Government is entitled to conduct the business of th~ country, namely, whether the House supports it. Every other tost is open to qualification. “As regards by-eletions, to make tho existence of a Government dependent on what may possibly bo a mere wave of popular feeling is to rodnoo the constitution to an absurdity.”
BILLS PASSED.
(Received August 12, 1 a.m.) LONDON August 11
Tho Appropriation Bill has been read a third time in tho House of Commons.
Tho House of Lords has passed tho Naval Works Bill, the Unemployed Bill, and Appropriation Bill.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 5665, 12 August 1905, Page 5
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