BRITISH POLITICS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1929, 10 November 1906, Page 2

BRITISH POLITICS.

PRESS ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHT London, Nov. 7Mr Balfour moved tho adjournment of tho House of Commons as a protest against the Government's converting the Land Tenure Bill from an unofficial member's Bill into a Government measur*-. Is was nr. fair, he said, that a oon-trovpr-ial private Bi<l, which was intromeed into be Hou-e on Friday after* noon and read tbs —ooud tiai" af er »n ucMmic disoa-sion, sb mid, wtbout warning, be ooriver ed into a Ministerial measui e.

Sir Henry Campb'.di-Ban-iGrmaQ jnsti-fi-d the proo'dure followed, and moved the closure rjegafving tho adjournment* This was earned fay a majority of 226 votes.

Mr Wyudham declared that the Bill was of enormous importance, and was tho first step towards legislation for Groat Britain on the lines of Irish legislation, or it might be tho first strp towards land nationalisation. Tho Times declares that some of the provisions of the Laud Tenure Bill aro yory questionable, and apparently inspired throughout by the ingenious assumption that the tenaat is always deserving while the landlord is generally the reverse, November 8. Lord Portsmouth, speaking at Aidershot, warned the House of Lords that if the bishops destroyed the Education Bill the Liberals would not permit tho matter to drop.

THE EDUCATION BILL.

WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE.

PRESS ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHT Rsoeived 8.49 p.m., Nov. 9. London, Nov. 8.

The House of Lords passed clause 4 as amended, with a further amendment compelling the local authority to permit teachers to givo denominational instruction in extended facilities to schools but not at the authorities’ expense. Mr Ksir Hardie’s Bill enacting that when women had the same qualifications as men they wonld be entitled to vote at Parliamentary elections was read a first time. Mr Hardie states that 420 members are pledged to give woman tbe franchise, S.r H Campbell-Baunerman stated he bad never said Government would not deal with tbe subject during tbe present Parliament, but only that it would not Seal with it during the present session,