WELSH DISESTABLISHMENT.
ANGRY DISCUSSIONS. LORD ROBERT CECIL AND MR LLOYD GEORGE. •(Press Assn.— By Telegraph. -Copyright.) (Received April 27, 8.5 a.m.) LONDON, April 26. . The" Welsh Disestablishment Bill was read a first time by 331 to 253. Mi* Harwood voted with the Opposition. Sixty-eight Nationalists supported tho Government. Mr Lloyd George said that the wrong Wales felt was that England was ifnposing their Church as an exponent of Welsh spiritual life. He aroused the anger of Oppositionists by stating that two-thirds of the Church's property at the time of the Reformation went to laymen to bribe them to sell -their faith to those enjoying, endowments to-day. He .called himself a thief because he tried to take a halfpenny instead o_* a pound. Lord Robert Cecil interjected: This is not Limehouse. ■*. ' '■ y Mr Lloyd George: T thought I should get home. «,' Lord Hugh Cecil : ? The suggestion that my family received Church lands is offensive iand untrue. (Received April 27, 9.10 a.m.) LONDON, April 26. Mr Harwood (Liberal) has, given notice , moving the -rejection of the Disestablishment Bill.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12748, 27 April 1912, Page 5
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