THE BRITISH PARLIAMENT.
! [PER TRESS ASSOCIATION. —COPYRIGHT.]
i (RecoiW'd This Day at 12.25. p.m.) \ LONDON January 23. The Daily Oh follicle’s’ .Parliamentary correspondent says the vacancy in the War Cabinet will not be filled immediately. .
It is extremely improbable that the Bouse of Commons will agree to the vital changes made by the House of Lords in the People’s Bill. The Commons thrice defeated the Proportional Representation Bill. If Lord Selbonrne’s proposal is included .in the Bill it will he impossible to pass .it into law this session. Government will probably invite the the Commons to disagree with th. endments. LONDON, Jan. 23. The House of Lords carried, by 132 to 42 an amendment to the representation of People’s Bill providing for proportional representation on the basis of j each elector having one transferable vote in constituencies returning irom ; three to five members.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/HOG19180124.2.21
Bibliographic details
Hokitika Guardian, 24 January 1918, Page 3
Word Count
143THE BRITISH PARLIAMENT. Hokitika Guardian, 24 January 1918, Page 3
Using This Item
The Greymouth Evening Star Co Ltd is the copyright owner for the Hokitika Guardian. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of the Greymouth Evening Star Co Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in