IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLV, Issue 12000, 13 February 1920, Page 5

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

THE ADDRESS-IN-REPLY. LABOUR PARTY MOVE AMENDMENT. United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph-Copyright. London, Feb 10, After the Address-in-Reply had been proposed and seconded in the House of Commons} Sir Donald MacLean said the time tor the Coalition to end had come. It should he replaced by a newly elected body fresh from the .electorates. He twitted Ministers witn the remarkable spectacle of the Lord Chancellor patting on the black cap and sentencing his own Government to death. The Coalition had outgrown its usefulness as originators of legislation. Mr Adamson complained of the Government’s failure to reduce the cost of living. Only the most generous measure of Home Rule would satisfy reasonable people in Ireland; This should be given and military rnle be withdrawn. Mr Lloyd George followed. The Labour Party has given notice of an amendment to the Address-in-reply, regretting the absence of reference to nationalisation of coal mines. Other amendments deal with the cost of living and the Russian situation. London, Feb 11 Lord Hugh Cecil approved the main lines of the Premier’s Russian policy Ho suggested that another effort he made to solve the 'lrish problem by means of a convention. SPEECH BY LORD CURZON London, Feb 11 Lord Ourzon, speaking in the House of Lords, warmly approved Visconut Grey’s letter regarding America, which, he said, had already had a marked effect on the other side of the Atlantic. If Germany showed a disposition faithfully to fulfil her obligations under the Treaty we would do our best to help her to fulfil them, NOTICES OF MOTION London, Feb 10 In the House of Commons, Mr Chamberlain gave notice of a bill to amend the law regarding the standard fineness of silver coinage in Britain Dominions Mr Lloyd" George gave notice of the Irish Bill