WELSH CHURCH BILL

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8348, 7 February 1913, Page 8

WELSH CHURCH BILL

BEAD A THIRD TIME IN HOUSE OF, COMMONS. LONDON, February 5. • On the division on the amendment to tho Welsh Church Disestablishment Bill to leave all the glebe lands to the Church, in which the Government was defeated by 243 votes to 220, Mr W. G Gladstone, Sir Edward Beauchamp, and Mr William Pearce voted against the Government. A dozen Liberals abstained from voting. Sixty Nationalists voted with the Government. An urgent whip has been sent to absent Nationalists. „ _ , ~ Speeches by Mr Bonar Law and Mr R. McKenna wound up the debate on the Bill. . . Mr A. Lyttelton’s motion to reject the Bill was defeated by 342 votes to Bill was then read a third time. *« land of our FATHERS.” WELSH AND IRISH RECIPROCATE. (Received February 6, 11.6 p.m.) LONDON, February 0. In tho House of Commons, Mr Lloyd Sorgo delivered a reasoned defence of a Bill on historical grounds. Mr John Dillon said that Ireland pas proud to repay the debt she owed to Wales’s steady support of Home Rule. Sir David Brynmor-Jdnes said that the Welsh people were very grateful to their Irish friends. Alter the division, Mr John Williams sang “ Land of Onr Fathers ” in (Welsh in a crowded lobby, other members joining.