IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT

Colonist, Volume XLIX, Issue 11873, 1 March 1907, Page 4

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT

DISESTABLISHMENT OP THE CHUROH

Received Peb 28, 9,31 p.m Hgp London, Feb 28 In the House of Commons, Mr RL Everett's motion in favor of dis-establishment and disownment of the Church in England and Wales wasloarried by 198 to 90. The debate was featureless, excepting- for the Hon A Lyttelton 's • strenuous protest. He declared that the bill proposed to pillage the Church. Hon A Birrell, while personally supporting the resolution, announced that the Government declined any responsibility of a motion of this kind, their hands being already full enough. London Feb 27 General Sir Reginald Pole-Carew, so well-known in connection with the Boer war, has severely criticised Mr Haldane's army reorganisation proposals, which he says is merely § calling old things by new names. Sir Reginald says Mr Haldane has merely\reduced the artillery and the infantry and given nothing in their place. Service members of the House of Commons'generally aro unfavorable to the scheme, and consider it will impede reoruiting. Colonel Sir Howard Vincent, M.P.., the well-known volunteering authority, thinks- that the whole scheme of the voluntary forces will break down, and that the War Office will be compelled to/ fall back on conscription. " In the House Mr Haldane explained that County Associations may exempt territorials on payment of 10s in cases where men are unable to comply, giving as an instance a workman changing his home. Lord Curzon, in a letter to Lord Newton, hopes that the Conservative Party will associate itself with the principles of reform of the House of Lords. He suggests that a 'Minister of the Crown ought to be allowed the right to speak in both I Houses of Parliament. In tbe House of Commons *the minority against Mr R MeKenna's Education Bill, included 45 Irish ' Nationalists, The 'latter, |by forcinga division against the bill, greatly irritated the Non-CoDfjr-mist group. The Australian States Constitution Bill, doing (away with tinRoyal assent in certain cases, • bas been read a second time in the House of Lords. Received Feb 28, 11,18 pm In the House of Commons, MrW S Churchill, replying to Mr MacKamess' criticism on tbe repatriation of tbe Chinese laborers from the Rand, said tbe Goverment never intended, nor expected that the State aided repatriation proposals would lead to a general exodus of the Chinese coolies from the Rand. "Hon A Lyttelton said when invited to go home in steam yachts at the Government expense, only one per cent of those repeatedly described as tortured, miserable, ' and ' manacled slaves accepted the invitation, while ninety-nine per cent refusedj Mr J Ward, member for Stoke-on-Trent, [said he did not belive [the country was entirely satisfied with what the Government had done to reduce the Chinese laborers in tbe Rand. -^ i|£gs