IMPERIAL POLITICS.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13594, 14 May 1908, Page 5

IMPERIAL POLITICS.

lltrSH UNIVERSITIES BILL

LAUOCR PARTY STRENGTHKXKI)

Press Associ'ation-By Telegraph-Copyright LONDON, Usiy 13. Mr Hutton (Liberal Member for Mor-h-vy, Yorlv-iliiiii), movicd an amendment ri'jYcling (In- li-irslj t*nivi-i.sitiu> Bill owing to its denominational ba>is Imt. it wan defeakd by 325 to 38. The Bill was read, a va-cMiil "time by 344 to 31, after Mr. R-edmond, Mr. Carson, and Mr. Birrell liad spoken in support of it. Mr Moore (member for Armagh North) t/iuntc-d .Mr. Lloyd-Ceorgi' and oth-er Liberal leaders w'th being la!.-;? to 'I lie pledge given to the Nonconformist electors and noisy obstructionists. Mr Asiruith stated that an . auLumn ijt.'-.-i-n was iupvituble. The Scottish Mjners' Federation, numbering eighty thousand, lias- decided' hijointhe Labour I'ariy. Mr. Churchill was loudly che?i.';-d when he- was introduced by MrAsfj'uith. MONTROSE BURGHS ELECTION. . ' Received 10.54 p.m., May 13th. LONDON, May 13. Mr Robert Hareourt son of the late Sir William Vernon, Hareourt, Liberal, was elected for Montrose Burghs by 3083 votes; Mr Burgess (Labour), 1937; Mr Constable (Conservative) 1576." Mr John Burns' Housing . and Town Planning' Bill was read a second time, without "a division though there were many complaints' of the Bill's -want of lucidity.'