IMPERIAL POLITICS.

Timaru Herald, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 13152, 7 December 1906, Page 5

IMPERIAL POLITICS.

THE TRADES DISPUTES BILL

United Press Association—Per .Electric Telegraph—Copvright. LONDON", December 5.

■ In the House of Lofds, during the debate on the second*: reading of • the Trades Disputes Bill, Lord Lansdowne admitted that legislation the,'relief of trades unions was inevitable, int the present Bill would bring ruin and ibodily and mental suffering to individuals,, and loss, danger and irconvenience to -the community owing to the excessive privileges it conferred. Nevertheless, since the electors had given a mandate, lie would net divide the House on the Bill. Lord Halsbury denounced the Bill as legalising tyranny. j THE EDUCAtJoN BILL. ' LONDON, December 5. The Catholic Bishops 1 at Westminster ■have resolved that ■ they] are unable to accept the Education v ßd as a settlement even as amsrded by thejHouse of Lords. THE LAND TENJRE BILL. 1 Received 9.45 p.m., December 6th. LONDOK, December 6. In the House of Lordsjthe Land Tenure Bill was read a second, time without a, division. , In. the House of Cbnjnoris : Mr Glaxlslone declined to accet- Mr Marks's amendment including domestic servants in the Workmen's Compensiion Biil, on the ground that the employes would not insure domestic servants. I Several members urged acceptance, and Sir H. Campbell-Banineraan advised Mr Gladstone to accept the amendment, which was clone amidst cheers. ~ ', ■ -: - »*- * - %