IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 10638, 14 April 1906, Page 3

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

(Press Assn.— -By Telegraph.— Copy right) LONDON, April 13. Thirty-two of the . bishops ot England and Wales, assembled at Lambeth Palace, resolved that the Education 'Bill as it stands must. unhesitatingly be opposed. The 'Times* states that Mr W. Ruavciman, M.P. for Dewsbury, speaking at Newcastle, warned the Archbishop of Canterbury tliat if ho attempted to i_e tjio House of Lords as in 19U2, with the hope of wrecking the wishes of the House of Commons, it would make the disestablishment of the Church of England inevitable, and shake the House of Lords to its. foundations. Bishop Brindle, Catholic Bishop , of Nottingham, states that ''lhe Education Bill is a brutal act of confiscation. The l-*i-iinrdse League is agitating ou the question of education throughout the country, protesting against the. endowment of one kind of religious teaching by means of funds to which of all religions are compelled 7 to contribute. Tho Canadian system of allowing ratepayers to ullot the rale to a particular type of school is growing in lavor amongst opponents ol the Bill. '■ Mr* Bryce, in the Hoiwe of Commons, stated that vacancies in the Irish Land Commission were thrown open to competition. The five candidates selected were undoubtedly better qualified than their predecessors. He had no knowledge of the political opinions of the appointees. A sum of ±510,000,000 will be at the disposal .of the commissioner^ within the next twelve months, Avhich will obviate any block. in land purchase. Sic E. Grey, stated in the House of Commons that the resumption of relations cannot bo discussed with Servia ■w-hilo the regicides hold official positions. If they were removed and a British representative sent to Belgrade, it must be understood that the officers were not to be reinstated. , ]■ . (Received April 14, 8.24 a.m.) The British of Gippslaud, in a letter to tho Spectator, urges the Imperial Parliament and Anglicans to adopt tho New South Wales -method, of imparting 'special religious instruction into State schools.