BRITISH POLITICS.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXI, Issue 8734, 7 February 1907, Page 2

BRITISH POLITICS.

Press Association. —Copyright. London, February (5.

In Ids customary letter to his supporters on the eve of lire assembling of Parliament, Sir 11. Campbell-Bannerman states that the attention of the House of Commons immediately on meeting will be called to matters of grave importance.

This is interpreted as foreshadowing legislative endeavours to reform the House of Lords.

The Daily Telegraph states that Lon! Newton is drafting a Hill to include in the membership of the House of Lords ex-Ministcrs and some others who have served the rotate. It is also proposed to elect a number of peers by delegation, .similar to the method adopted with Scottish and Irish peers. [By the Act of Union, Scotch peel’s send sixteen representatives to the House of Lords. They are elected immediately after every "(moral election. Irish poors elect twenty - eight representatives for life.]

London, February G. Sir TV. S. Robson, M.P. for South Shields, advocates a strong nonhereditary element in the House of Lords. Mr Loir Hardio at Merthyr Tydvil said that the three Labour Bills passed last year, instead of becoming weaker, like other measures, in their passage through the Commons, had been strengthened, because Labour was free to light a Liberal or Tory Government as circumstances dictated.