IMPERIAL POLITICS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2379, 21 December 1908, Page 5

IMPERIAL POLITICS.

A PUBLIC DISTURBANCE BILL. THE MINERS’ BILL AMENDED. United Press .Association, Copyright. LONDON, Dec. 18. r The Bill to prevent tlio nee of hop substitutes has been withdrawn. Lord Robert Cecil’s Bill for punishing wilful disturbance at public meetings was unanimously read a third time. It aimed at such offences as suff ragett e disturbances. The Port of London Bill has been read a third time.

The House of Lords amended the Miners’ Eight Hours Bill, increasing the period of labor by half an hour, and deferring the date of its operation.

LORDS’ AMENDMENTS TO MINERS’ BILL. COMMONS ACCEPT ONE BUT DISAGREE WITH ANOTHER. \ (Received Dec. 20, 5.7 p.m.) LONDON, Dec. 19. The House of Commons, after strong Laborite protests, agreed to the Government’s acceptance of the Lords’ amendment in the Miners’ Eight Hours Bill, permanently excluding the time occupied in entering and leaving the mine from the stipulated eight hours. The Lords’ amendment delaying the operation for twelve months was disagreed with. Lord Robert Cecil,referring to Lord Ponsonby’s indignant protest at the g Government’s yielding to the House of Loro’s on the hours' question, asked whether Lord Ponsonby had not yet realised that Government did not intend to attack the House of Lords. Despite their heroics, the Government were determined not to hazard their tenure of office. ...