IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 11056, 23 August 1907, Page 5

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

(Press Assn.— By Telegraph— Copyright). LONDON, August 22. The Government have abandoned thc Scottish Small Holders Bill. ..Lord Lansdowne soid the House of Lords read it a second timo'as they understood it would be amended m committee, with a view of rejecting the proposal to estublishf-iu. Scotland a- Land Court on the Irish model, but. introducing provisions closely resembling the .English Small Holdings Bill. 7 ..» Lord Ripon declared it waste of time to proceed. . Lord Tweedriiouth said tlie amendments suggested would eviscerate the Bill. Lord Rosebery declared that the responsibility of postponing legislation to ameliorate the condition of crofters rested with the Government, since the Lords were prepared to preserve the clauses dealing with crofters. ) When Mr Churchill announced m tlie House of Commons that Sir Wm. Lyne was unable to defer the collection of. the new duties Mr Cox shouted, "Will Birmingham commercial men take this lying down." (Received August 23, 10.40 a.m.) LONDON, August 22. The Daily Chronicle states the Governent will next session introduce the Scotch Small Holdings Bill, pass it by means of the closure m the House of Commons and then send it back to the House of Lords; . backed by a popular agitation m Scotland. . The rTransvaal Loan Guarantee Bill has been read a third time.