IMPERIAL POLITICS.

Timaru Herald, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 13144, 28 November 1906, Page 5

IMPERIAL POLITICS.

THE WELSH PARTY.

United Press Association—Per Electric Telegraph—Copvright. LONDON, November 26. The struggle for supremacy in the Welsh Party between Mr Lloyd George'and Mr D. A. Thomas increases. Mr Thomas accuses Mr George of appointing a "Welsh journalist to a receivership in bankruptcy at a salary of £7OO as a reward,

THE LORDS AND THE'GOVERN-' ."'■•• MENT. ■ ■ . ' Received 9.35 p.m., -November 27th. LONDON, November 27. Mr McKen.na,- Financial •-■Secretary to the Treasury, speaking at Blaen Avon, fsuid that unless the House of Lords--re-pented the Government -would n«t accept the mangled/Education Bill. The Go-: vernment would have "the Bill, the whole; Bill, nothing- but the Bill 1 .",

THE LAND TENURE BILL. Received 9A6 p.m., November 27th. LONDON, November 27. In; the House of Lords the Land Tenure Bill was read a first time. . AN ARCHBISHOP'S VIEWS. Received 11.16 p.m., November 27th. LONDON, November 27. The Archbishop of Canterbury, replying to the National Society's deputation who urged that the House of Lords should adhere to its amendments in. the Education; Bill, said that he had endeavoured' to see if the settlement reached -would be what they were entitled in common decency to expect. Unless teachers were allowed to give denominational instruction the nominal offer of facilities embodied in'the Government's Bill was practicably worthless to urban areas. He bad sufficient confidence in the honesty and reasonableness of the supporters of the Bill to believe that the latter would see the hollowness. of the 5 proposed concession, and" if the thing went forward—it was now at large—if they were bound to make their offer real, no- more momentous matter had ever been dealt with in our time.