IMPERIAL POLITICS.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13598, 19 May 1908, Page 5

IMPERIAL POLITICS.

RIGHTS OF THE PUBLIC. Press Association-By Teleeraph-Copyright LONDON, May 17. In the Hcut.se of Common.- - . Mr C. P. TrevelyanV. Bill <rrariting the public free access to uncultivated mountains anci mooi lands wu • read a second tiin,3 by 177 votes to 65. The application of the measure is not limited to Scotland, like Mr Bryce's earlier measure. A MEMBER'S INDEPENDENCE. Received 9.50 p.m.. May 18th. LONDON! May 18. Mr S. H. White-bread, member "of the House of Commons for Huntingdom, in addifrrsing hii> constituents in regard to the Licensing. Bill, said that the Bill was neither moderate nor rational. He must oppose it. contrary to the pledge he had given hi.s c-nslituents. and was. therefor, prepared at any moment to resign. He added: "F .am not a Chinese cheap labourer. I cUcline to be kept ill a com pound and let out to vote exactly a.v I am told."

The Lib. nil excciiliw of Huntingdon recently asked Mr Whiiebread to retain his heat, and ivleac-red him from hin undertaking in reference to tlie Bill.