BRITISH POLITICS.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIII, Issue 9148, 18 May 1908, Page 5

BRITISH POLITICS.

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Press Association —Copyright. London, May 16.

At the Lord Mayor’s banquet at Westminster, Mr Walter Long said “I hope we shalloon see representatives of colonies sitting in the House of Commons in the interests of the Empire which ;they had made as much as ourselves. ’ ’ THE EDUCATION BILL. Mr O’Donnell, a member of the House of Commons, in reply to the manifesto of the Irish League in Britain says Mr McKenna’s Bill penalises the Catholic sclm ds in London to the extent of tweni r shillings per child. Tiiere is only one urgent qustion for the Irish in England now, namely, to save the schools from being financially bled to death.

In the House of Commons Mr C. P. Trevelgin’s Bill granting the public free access to uncultivated mountains and moorland —the appliacation was not limited to Scotland like Mr Bryce’s earlier measure—was read a second time by 177 to 65.

THE LATE BY-E LECTION.^ Rceeived May 18, S.BO a. in. The Daily Chronicle says that 1 iB'J3 Mr Stanier, the successful candidate in the Newport election, put tariff reform at the forefront, though such an issue was not so directly involved at a by-election as at a general election, yet it is clear that the tariff reform policy is making some way, and is not proving so repellaut as at first.