BRITISH POLITICS.

Hokitika Guardian, 15 February 1924, Page 3

BRITISH POLITICS.

I,OHR DENNAN’S VIEW OP I.AHOPIi PEEKS. AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CARLE ASSOCIATION Received lliis ilnv at 9.45 a.m.) LONDON, Pci,. 11. Lord Reiman was entertained at luncheon hy the National l.ihenil t'I U I». lie said at the last session of Parliament some Labourites sang the “peil Plug” in both the Commons and tin) lobbies. Such a thing had not happened in the Lords, but under a Labour Government he hoped that they might one day hear Lord Haldane'strike tip the "Hod Flag” from the woolsack with Lords ( liclinsford, Parmoor and Muir-Alae-konzie joining lustily in the chorus. Jt would add considerably to the liveliness of the Lords and endear those peers to their supporters on Civileside and in other strongholds The existing contldence of the country. ' which Al.r MacDonald claimed was due to the inception of a Labour Government, was really due to the existence of a solid bloc ol Liberal votes to keep Labour from carrying out. its most, extreme measures to which it was pledged. HOUSE UP LAITY RESOLUTIONS LONDON, Pel.-. 11. The majority ol the Hnii-c of Lait\ in the National Assembly divided that the reservation ol the Sacrament was not .contrary to tin; law of the church, after the lit. Kev. Theodore Inskip. (Bishop of Barking), had moved that the words ••permitting reservation" be ileleteu Irom the rubric on the ground (hat ttiey created Scheism. Hie House also agreed that the salutation “Lord bo with you” should be permissive and not obligatory, oil the ground that many working class congregations regarded the frequency of such passages as vain repetition.