IMPERIAL POLITICS.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIC, Issue 13356, 5 August 1907, Page 5

IMPERIAL POLITICS.

• MIXERS' EIGHT HOURS BILL. Press Association-J3y Telegraph-Copyright LONDON, August 2. In the House, of Commons the Miners' Eight Houivs Bill, introduced by Mr Gladstone, Home Secretary, was read a first time. Representatives of the Coal-owners' Association and the Miners Federation are conferring in the hope of rendering such a measure, if passed in 1908, .workable and acceptable to both parties. - Mr Gladstone's Bill exempts official!?, superiors and employees in positions of authority, and provides means of suspending the'measure in case of national emergency or an industrial crisis leading 'to a, dearth of coal. CLEMENCY FOR EGYPTIANS. LONDON, August 2. in the House of Commons, in discussing the foreign vote, Sir -Edward Grey foreshadowed a- revision of the sentences pass-sd on the assailants of British officers at Deriihawi, JSgypt, last year, as soon as it was clear that clemency would not be interpreted by the. Moslems as weakness. EVICTED TENANTS BILL. "LOSS ON BENNY POSTAGE. Received 4.16 p.m., August 4th. LONDON, August 3. . In the House of Commons'the Evicted Tenants' Bill was read a third timL'. The.'Food Bill providing for a rigid inspection, especially of canned, foods, at the port of entry, and cleanliness of food distribution, was read a first time. Mr Hemriker-Healon, in a. letter to the "Times," ridicules Mr. Buxton's financial bogey in connection with universal penny postage. - Mr Hoaton declares that a net loss of £500,000 a year is impossible, and that it is improbable- ilia amount will exceed £125,000.