IMPERIAL POLITICS.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13531, 28 February 1908, Page 5

IMPERIAL POLITICS.

THE EDUCATION BILL. Press Association-By Telegraph-Copyright 1.1 )XD<IS. February 26. The resolutions of ihe Nonconformist' members of the Hourie of Commons and the Welsh members have- not committed either group to unqualified approval of Mr McKenna's bill.

High Churchmen lieicelv denounce the Bill.

Father Yaughan. .speaking at the East End. said it was altogether an impossible Bill.

Archbishop Bourne, speaking at LeeiL;. «iiil In- belii-ved it would be unworkable,

SCOTTISH LAND RILL.

LONDON. February 26

In the House of Lords. Lord Camjx-r----down'ts Scottish Small Landholders' Bill was read a second time, despite a remark by Earl Crewe that the Bill was an intentional slight on the House of Common.;. Earl Rosebeiy retorted that the Bill emphasized the football-like 'precipitancy with which the House of Commons was sending up Government Bills.

BILL REFUSED INTRODUCTION

LONDON. February 26.

Mr J. L. Morgan, who was appointed Recorder for Swansea, has been re elected for Carmarthen West, unopposed. The House of negatived the introduction of Mr T. Corbett's Bill to appoint. Commissioners to inquire into the need for inspection of monasteries and convents.