A CATCH DIVISION.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 62, 17 March 1904, Page 2

A CATCH DIVISION.

NOMINAL DEFEAT OF IMPERIAL MINISTRY. DIiIUNU EDUCATION lIEHATE. LONDON, March 1.1. I« the House of Commons Mr .John Kedmond dul'euted Hie Oovernment on the Irish Education Act by I'll 1o 111". THE lIEHATE. (Received March Hi, 0.4 H p.m.) LONHON, Maivh 10. In the debate on file Education Hill on Monday night Sir William -An:., h lifllulllic.'ll I lie passive resistance nieiil and organised opposition u. ; ... Welsh Education Councils, leaning to want of fuel and school apparatus anil the closing of schools. In this political warfare III.; methods of barbarism were being empio.wd. .Mr Balfour declared thai, the (loverninenl. must devise means to give Welsh children the beiieiiis they were .nl.ii 1. .1 tu. Many speakers advocated a revision of the act on the basis of a compromise, but nearly all differed in regard to details. With the assistance of the Irish puri.v the Government secured u majority of i:>u. On Tuesday Mr .1. E. Redmond, for the purpose of raising the debate on certain points in the Irish Education Estimates, moved u reduction of £10(1. The nominal .Ministerial defeut which followed was accidental, as many .Ministerialists, being engaged on various coinniiUces, did not participate in the division. Air Redmond's subsequent motion to report progress was rejected by a majority of US.