OPENING OF PARLIAMENT.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3410, 14 February 1920, Page 6

OPENING OF PARLIAMENT.

LONDON, Feb. 10.

After the Address-in-Reply ‘had been proposed and seconded in the House of Commons, Sir Donald McLean said the time for the Coalition to end had come. It should be replaced by a newly elected body fresh from the electorates. He twittecl Ministers with the remarkable spectacle of the Lord Chancellor putting on the black Cap and sentencing his own Government to death. The coalition had outgrown its usefulness as originatorsi of legislation.

- Mr Adamson complained of the G ov--crnment’s failure ‘to reduce the cost. of living‘. Only the most generous measure of Home Rule would s:lti;~‘fy reasonable people in Ireland. This should be given and military rule with drawn. Mr Lloyd George followed.

The Labour Party has given notice of an amendmelit to the Addl'ess-in Reply, regretting the absence of refer once to niationalisation of coal mines. Other ameridnients deal with the cost of living and the Russian situation.

LONDON, Feb. 11‘

Lord Hugh Cecil approved the main lines of the Prelniel"s Russian policy. He suggested that another effort :be made‘ to ‘solve the Irish problem. by means of a convention.