IMPERIAL POLITICS.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13661, 1 August 1908, Page 5

IMPERIAL POLITICS.

DISCUSSION ON TAXATION. v Press A'ssociation-By Telegrapk-Copyrifch' LONDON, July 30. Discussing the Finance Bill Lord St. Aldwyn said he attributed the low price of consols, to the Government's attacks on property. He complained that the Government displayed no financial foresight or prudence. The Earl of Crewe 6aid the Government thought that indirect taxation was quite h'gh enough. The country was quite able to pay for its defensive services without melodramatic taxation.

BILLS DEALT WITH. Received 11.50 p.m.'., July 31st. .LONDON, July 31. ' In the House of Commons the Appropriation Bill was reau a x second time, after a, discursive debate embracing the conduct of public business in the House of Conrmons, the condition of Ireland and the Congo, and other questions. In the House of Lords the Old Age Pensions Bill, Finance Bill, and Irish Universities Bill, were read a third time. Lord Killinan's' amendment to the Universities Bill to reinsert permission to privately erect chapels in -the precincts of a a university or a college was seconded by Lord and cairied by 32 votes to 31 votes.

The Government was reminded that the measure was purely denominational.