IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

Timaru Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 3608, 6 July 1901, Page 2

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

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.telegraph— Copyright. Received 10.56 pirn., July sth., LONDON, July 5. In the House of Commons, Mr Chamberlain stated that he was communicating with the.colonies relative, to the King's style or title recognising more clearly the ■Royal-Imperial sovereignty over the whole Empire. He hoped to submit the papers shortly, and would introduce a Bill giving effect to the idea. Received 12.53 a.m., July 6th. The Bill authorising a £60,000,000 war loan passed its second reading by a majority of 160 votes, after a heated debate on the conduct of the war. ' In the debate Mr Brodrick declared that the Government would never concede the independence of the Transvaal and Orange Free State. I

Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman considered that without yielding the main point the Government could exhibit more conciliation. In the House of Commons, replying <to several pro-Boer speeches alleging that Mr Chamberlain's refusal to sanction Lord Kitchener's peace proposals was responsible for the prolongation of the war, Mr Brodrick declared that in the last few months the Boers had suffered enormously, losing 7000 men besides great quantities of stores and ammunition. Their determination to continue the war was the sole result of am agitation in this country which Was countenanced in high quarters. Mr Kruger had never subscribed a farthing towards the support of the captive women and children and prisoners; nor had he negotiated with the Government.