BRITISH POLITICS

Gisborne Times, Volume XXII, Issue 1737, 1 May 1906, Page 2

BRITISH POLITICS

By telegraph. Press Atts’n, Copyright London, April 29. Mr Morley, in his speeoh et the Eighty Club, Baid one cf ibo strangest tbingß was that tbe men who bad made delusive charges of guilt in connection with the Soutn African war had dooe the moet to render Lord Elgin’s task as difficult as they could. The Housing of Working Men Bill provides that rural Councils may erect ooltages with thiee aorer, repayment to bo made within eighty years, at two and a half per cent. After the Bill has been read a Beoond time it will be referred, to 8, . Selection Committee, Mr Burns said he Jfl hoped to utilise it as the nucleus of a com-jgp prehonsivo Bill in 1907. OIL ON THE FLAMES.

By; telegraph, P*«w Asa’s, Copyright Received 11.21 p.m., April 30. London, April 30. The Bishop of Hereford appeals to churobmen not to participate in the sweeping and reckless opposition of shortsighted zealots to the Education Bill.

THE EDUCATION BILL. By telegrafih, Press A®s’n, Copyright Received 9.40 p.m„ April 80. London, April 80.', Mr Chamberlain, writing to a corres. pondent, said that Unionists were npani* mously opposed to the religious provisions in the Education Bill which transferred . the Dissenters’ grievance in an exaggeratejgp form from tbeir shoulders to every other seot. The State should either provide seoular education aione, giving to all denominations facilities for religious instruction, or provide religious education fer all according to the parents’ wish. Personally he preferred tbe former.