IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

Colonist, Volume XLIX, Issue 12020, 22 August 1907, Page 3

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

London, August 21. v The House of Commons after -an all-night sitting passed the third reading of the Appropriation Bill. Mr John O'Connor vesented Viscount Tumour smiling during his (Mr O'Connqr's) speech upon the question of arterial draining in Ireland, and remaked: "If outside the precincts of the House of Commons Viscount Tumour would receive the treatment he deserved." Mr O'Connor further described Viscount Tumour as an "impertinent puppy." He was ordeied to withdraw the expression, but he was silent until Mr J. H. Whiteley privately interposed. The expression was then withdrawn in' deference to the chair. The Battersea Socialists have initiated a vigorous campaign to try to oust Mr John Barns, the President of the Local Government Board, from Parliament. The House of Commons has agreed to the House of Lord's amendment in the Criminal Appeal Bill. A flight of colds set out one day, Gftat ugly things, and flew away. Amoss the hills and o'er the. sea, Deternuned.Yioigef ul thus to be. Butall Tat once, those colds grew fewer, Vanquished by Woods' Great Peppermint Cure ; And so they died, all one by one,