BRITISH POLITICS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, 19 June 1925, Page 5

BRITISH POLITICS.

FINANCE BILL.

TAX ON ARTIFICIAL SILK. s •' :•! i \ ' ■ ' ' ■ jess Association—Electric Xelegrapli-rCopyrig!; ■(Receive! Friday, .11.10 a.m.) LONDON, Thursday. The House of Commons sat until 6.23 o’clock this morning and concluded the committee stage of the Finance Bill, which was reported to the House.

An amendment ■ hiov.ed by Miss Wilkinson to exclude silk .from taxation was rejected by 180 votes to 82.., .... .... : , ... « A' -' V-

%Ln amendment by Mr. Gillett to reduce the. duty on articles made wholly of silk or artificial silk from 33 £ per cent, to 10 per cent, was rejected by 170 votes to 80. —Reuter.

EASTBOUFjNE by-election.

UNIONIST RETURNED.

(Received Friday, 11.30 a. 111.)/ '* ' LONDON,- Thursday.

The. Eastbouriie by-election resulted: Sir Reginald Hall (-Unionist);. . . 012,741 Mr. Harcourt JOhriston .(Lib.) i .5)3861 Mr. T. S. Williams: (Labour). ~/; “2,696- ' • ,gcr t<’.T(n'.' an intricate problem. (Received Friday,' IITIO a.m.) ‘ ■ ■ HONDO!’, Replying to Major Harvey, Sir W. Joynson Hicks said that noncommunications had yet ben received from the Dominions directly referring to the resolution on ,tlie subject of the nationality of British women who marry aliens, moved in Parliament, in Febru•ary- ... „ .r He did not know of similar resolutions moved in the Commonwealth Parliament. ' He-tried-to get a general agreement , on the subject of nationality, and it would .be wrong to introduce a. bill. In the meantime he would see whether a further despatch could be sent to the Dominions asking for the necessary information. —Reuter.