BRITISH POLITICS

Colonist, Volume LI, Issue 12407, 24 November 1908, Page 2

BRITISH POLITICS

— o ■ THE EDUCATION BILL. PARTY CONFERENCES. £Pbess Association— -Copyr.tixbt-1 London, Nov. 22. Many additional bishops have pro- ■ tested at the Dean of Canterbury's. Lord Hugh, Cecil's, and Lord Halifax's circular ort^the education compromise, on the ground that it is intended to wreck tbeJPrimate's negotiations, and also of its irregularity. The annual meeting of the Liberal. Unionist Council at Manchester resolved that fiscal reform should be the first constructive policy of the Unionist party. It was also resolved to favour direct Unionist-Labour representation in Parliament. The conference of the Conservative Associations at Cardiif resolved in favour of extending the Parliamentarian franchise to women entitled to vote at county, municipal, parish, ' and council elections.