IMPERIAL POLITICS.

Timaru Herald, Volume XC, Issue 13289, 18 May 1907, Page 5

IMPERIAL POLITICS.

THE EDUCATION QUESTION.

CopvrigM—May 17th, 8.40 a.m. "LONDON, May' 16.

Air David Thomas's Education Bill has been raid a first- time. He proposes to fiva the local education .. authority two thirds instead of one-third representation in connection with the management of " non-provided" schools. He stated that the Bill is urgently required in Wales. Replying to Earl Russell's question Lord' Loreburn (Lord Chancellor) admitted that the groat anomalies in naturalisation were fatal to the idea, of unity of citizenship ■within the British dominions. There was no more thorny question imaginable, but a, subsidiary conference might try to ascertain whether it was possible to do anything in the direction of unifying the laws of and common citizenship of the Empire.

REBUKED BY THE SPEAKER.

Copyright—May 17th. 11.51 p.m.. 'LONDON, May 17.

In the House of 'Commons Mr Harold Pearson, in mentioning that Mr Smart*. (Cape Colony) had addressed a meeting of Conservatives at Leeston, Suffolk, inquired regarding the propriety of a delpga+e to the Colonial Conference ..speaking at, a political meeting, and asked if Mr Churchill would inquire whether Lord Elgin would ?>?, his way to remonstrate with the Cape Government ov-pr a. sp*io««i bv-wich of eti-qiv-tte. (Opposition laughter.) The Speaker said: "Fad thft honourtiblei raemb»v submitted that auction to me, I would not havs permitted it. No drpartm*nt of the Government of this} country has any control oyer tfc* Mini* : t»rß of a sV.lf-goveni.ing colony." (Opposition cb-'-r..'

'Parliament has adjourned for a week.