BRITISH POLITICS.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIV, Issue 9465, 7 June 1909, Page 5

BRITISH POLITICS.

United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.- Copyright. London, June 6. In the House of Commons, Mr Harconrt’s Bill to constitute London as a sihgle Parliamentary borongb and to abolish plural voting, was read a second time by 140 to 46. Sir Henry Kimber, Mr Lyttelton, and other members combatted the Bill because it was not accompanied by a scheme for providing for the redistribution of seats and because it sought to establish one man one vote exclusively for London, which represented one-eighth of the electorate of the whole country. Mr Haroourt replied that the Bill removed anomalies and the Londoners’ grievances were remediable without their having to await a large measure of reform, which the Government hoped to pass before dissolution.