IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 3 August 1907, Page 5

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

RELATIONS WITH RUSSIA. SUGAR CONVENTION*. THE BUTTER BILL. Received 2nd, 11.31 p.m. London, August '2. In the House of Commons, during discussion on the Foreign Office vote, Sir G. Grey stated that Britain's negotiations with Russia sought the removal »f all possible causes for quarrel, but the degree of friendship following <>n -u h agreement depended not on the Foreign Office,but on the septimun of the two peoples He admitted, regarding the Sugar Convention, that unless Britain's proposals were accepted, the convention would be broken lip. The House of Commons read the Australian States Constitution and Colonial Statutes as Evidence Bills a third time. In the House of Lords, the Butter Bill was read a second time. Lord Onslow said it was a great pity that the Government had not seen its way to absolutely entirely prohibit the manufacture of miik-blended butter instead of sanctioning a fraud: The Board ought to take the greatest care in choosing a name whereunder the stuff would be sold. There ought to be one general term for It. Then, perhaps, the people would know it was not the genuine article.