IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.
Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. London, April 23. The resolution proposed in the Budget establishing graduated succession dutiea has been agreed.to. Lord Herschell's Land Transfer Bill has been read a second time in tho House of Lords. Tho mover claimed that the Australian system of registration had worked admirably. s April 26. Tho Miners' Eight Hours Bill was read a second time by a majority of 87. The Home Seoretary declared a very considerable majority of the Cabinet approved of the measure. Mr J. A. Pease, M.P. for Northumberland, Raid if the measute were carried it would be the death-blow to English industries. Sir A. Hiokman, M.P. for Wolverhampton, declared that the adoption of a legal eight hours would vastly increase the cost to coal consumers.
Lord Randolph Churchill strongly supported the bill. :
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 10034, 27 April 1894, Page 2
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133IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. Otago Daily Times, Issue 10034, 27 April 1894, Page 2
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