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Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 13979, 8 January 1916, Page 6

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PItOSPECTS FOII SOLDI MIS IN THE

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*lz. tire Holts© of Xords Lorii. prcj^.-,- . discussing the Parliament and'Jßegis'txa-, -tioa Bill, said it-was baaed-on iiiic • pri-n--cipio that the majority of the people did jioL want a general election. Some jne-nV-oi-.s of the Houso of Comaions

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I were demanding a. more strictly national •Government, but an election would not' be useful. It would be merely an^opportunity for a. welter of personalities directed against individuals. Lord St. Aldwyn commented that the Parliament Act created an absurd situation. The House of Lords was now" able to determine the life of th© House otß Commons. ) Lord (iryce pointed out that it came as an agreed upon measure. It would .be unfortunate if it were thrown baok into the cauldron of agitation and party difference. Lord Lansdownei isaid nobody could possibly desire that an election should ( be forced upon a reluctant country. The House of Lords would nob stand in the way when the time cam© that the people desired a change of Government. The Plural Voting Bill was dead; it j would be impossible- to introduce that I contentious measure immediately after 'peace. -Sir H. Rider Haggard is visiting South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada, representing the Royal Colonial Institute, for the purpose of inquiring into the opportunities offering for the settlement and employment of ■soldiers and sailors after th© war.