IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 10036, 30 April 1894, Page 2

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright.

London, April 27.

In the House o£ Commons, Home Secretary Asquith moved to introduce a bill for the 1 Disestablishment o£ the Ohurch of Wales and i Monmouthshire, to come into operation in ' January 189 G. The measure, whicb is o£ a highly complicated character, follows broadly on the lines of the Disestablishment of ths Irish Church. The Churoh Commissioners are empowered to ultimately apply church funds to the parish and county councils, hospitals, nnd to technical and higher education. Cathedrals are treated as national property, and every incumbent retains his life interest in his present oflice, parsonages and glebes receiving from the commission tho net proceeds of the titles. The Times characterises the bill as a gigmtic bribe to the ratepayers to spoliate the churcb, while the Standard says the Government have no intention of passing tho bill in the present Parliament. Sir E. Clarke moves the rejection of the Registration Bill unless inequalities iv the electoral powers are redressed. The Government are willing that 15 members from the Opposition side of the House ba nominated as members of the Grand Scotch Committee. April 28. The proposal for a Scotch Grand Committee has bsen carried, the Government concessions haviDg been accepted. The Scotch Radicals complain tbat by the concession ths Government hava whittled away the value of the grand committee. The Scotch Local Government Bill has been read a first timo.