IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

Temuka Leader, Issue 5099, 7 June 1904, Page 1

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

LONDON, June 2. Tho House of Commons, without division, read tho Anglo-French Convention Bill a second' time, after n debate without a single discordant note. Mr Balfour an id that in some aspects the Convention was one of the greatest international agreements on record, and was tho beginning of a new and happier era ■ of international relations. lie personally thought a groat danger to tho peace of the world lay in the relations 'between non-Christian and Oriental States and the great European Powers. The Convention had removed Morocco out; of tho category of the States dan-,, gerous to European peace. Mr ■ Balfour admitted that a difficult and dangerous question affecting British and French rights in Muscat had .been referred to the Hague Tribunal. Mr Arnold-Forster. Secretary of State for War, stated that the Government did not intend to propose the adoption of conscription as recommended by the Duke of Norfolk's Commission.