BRITISH POLITICS.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIII, Issue 9075, 15 February 1908, Page 5

BRITISH POLITICS.

Press Association—Copyright. . Received February 14, 11.35 p.m. London, -February 14. Many questions have been asked in the House of Commons relating to New Zealand. The Times considers that the Motherland is entitled to tender the Natal Government advice, inasmuch as she is under some measure of xesponsiblity. In the House of Commons, in connection with the resolution adopted by the Imperial Conference on May 9th, Mr Winston Churchill, in reply to Sir J. S. Randles, said that the machinery of the secretariat doubtless lends itself to the consideration of an important question—the status of natural-born Asiatic and British subjects equally with the status of those naturalised. Sir Edward Gray informed the House that Britain’s offer at the Hague Conference to communicate a naval programme to the Powers reciprocating would hold good at any time. In the House of Lords, Lord Oamperdown’s Small Holdings in Scotland Bill was read a first time. It Land Court, divided ownership, and other contentious features of the Government Bill, and follows the main lines of the English Act of 1907; Received February 15, 8,3 a.m. London, February 14. Sir H. Campbell-Bannerman’s guillotine resolution was carried by 331 to 84. Sir F. Buxton’s^adoption of the recommendations of the committee presided over by Mr O. E. Hobhouse in regard to postal wages and the conditions of service adds half a million to the estimates.