BRITISH PARLIAMENT

New Zealand Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 6090, 24 December 1906, Page 7

BRITISH PARLIAMENT

PROROGUED TILL FEBRUARY. PREPARATIONS FOR AN ELECTION. CABINET CHANGES. (Received December 23, 5 p.ra.) LONDON. December 22. Tho Imperial Parliament has prorogued till February 12th. In the House of Lords Lord Lorebnrn read a speech recapitulating tho foreign and domestic measures of Government. The Workmen’s Compensation Bill ho desenoed as extending tho benefits of the law to six million people not included in preceding acts. He regretted there had been no settlement of tho difficulties surrounding the education question. The National Passive Resistance Committee has issued a manifesto wherein it threatens a strong revival of the movement.

The political parties at Manchester are preparing for an election. It is expected that Mr Winston Churchill will bo transferred to another post, possibly as Chief Secretary for Ireland in place of Air Bryce, who becomes Ambassador at Washington.

Canadians are not over-pleased at Mr Bryce’s appointment to tho Ambassadorship at Washington. They mistrust him and consider' he has overlooked Canadian interests in the past. His programme and tendencies are also disliked.

ulie Dublin correspondent of “The Aimes” reports that Sir Antony MacDonuell has succeeded Air Biycc as the pilot of an Irish bill.

The Inst paragraph in the foregoing is couched in somewhat vague terms, but it is not unlikely that the correspondent regards the change in the Chief Secretaryship as favouring the devolution scheme of Sir Anthony Mac Donnell. who is TJndcr-Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. THREATENED SCHOOLS. LONDON, December 21. The Bishops of London and Southwark are appealing for £50,000 to save the Anglican schools now threatened with closure. The “Daily News” claims that it is possible to close a thousand voluntary schools by insisting on their conformity with the equipment and sanitation arrangements required in Council schools. PROPOSED CHALLENGE TO THE LORDS. LONDON, December 21. Tho “Daily News” advocates large measures for giving agricultural labourers easy access to the land, and relief rates by taxation of urban land values, in order to challenge the House of Lords and prepare the constituencies for an early appeal.MEALS FOR SCHOLARS. BILL PASSED BY THE LduDS. LONDON, December 22. The oill making provision for supplying school children; with meals was passed by tho House of Lords, after an amendment had been made exempting Scotland from tho operations of the measure.