CABLEGRAMS.

Colonist, Volume XLIX, Issue 11938, 18 May 1907, Page 3

CABLEGRAMS.

(Per Press Association.) BRITIStTpOLrnCS. London, May'tG. . Id the ' House of Commons/ M David A. 'Thomas's Bill read first time. Jit proposes to give a, lcca education authority two-thirds in stead of one-third representation in connection with the management <■ non-provided schools. lOvas staUx in the debate that the bill wns urgently required in Wales. In the House of Lords, replying to Earl Russell's question. Lore Loreburn, High Chancellor, sfnlei that the great anomalies of naturalisation werelfatal to the idea ol unity of citizenship within the British Dominions. He said no mor; thorny question was imaginably bul a subsidiary Imperial Conference would try' to ascertain whether it was possible to do anything in th« direction of unifying the laws ol naturalisation and common citizenship of; the Empire. The Executive of the Irish National" Council have resolved that ' the Irish Council Bill is an insult to the Irish nation. They call on the Irish members to withdraw from Parliament and return to Dublin to form an Assembly which would ! claim representation at the Hague 1 Conference, and presa for a settlement by an international Court of 1 Arbitration of the dispute between ' Ireland and England. Mr Haldane.g Secretary of State for War, speaking at a meeting in • London, said the Imperial Conference i had shown in the Conference that the Liberals had a constructive i policy. They had done a great deal 1 of business and laid the foundation of a great deal more. Twenty female suffragists howled down Mr Haldane, but were expelled » amid great excitement. „«.