BRITISH POLITICS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 26 August 1907, Page 2

BRITISH POLITICS.

SCOTTISH LAND SETTLEMENT BILL London, August '23. j in the House of Commons, referring to 1 lie abandonment of the Scottish Ln-dlioldera' Bill, Sir H. Campbell-Ban-' Herman stated that lie had received assurances from ail sides that those in-. e.i',td in the measure loyally acquiesced in tho course which the Government considered best on the grounds both of policy and of tactics. The Unionists greeted this remark with derisive cheering. ' EVICTED TENANTS' BILL. Received 25th, 2.52 p.m. London, August 24. In the Evicted Tenants' Hill the House of Lords adh.red to the limitation of evicteds to 200. They accepted four years, but adhered to the prohibition of compulsory purchase if the possessor of the land is a genuine tenant cultivating. MARRIAGE WITH A DECEASED WIFE'S SISTER. THE BILL BEFORE THE LORDS. Received 25th, 4.52 p.in. Loudon, August 24. The Deceased Wife's Sisters Bill passed through committee In the House of Lords. The Earl of Shaftesbury moved an amendment that the Bill should be retrospective.

Lord Loreburn said: You would purge parents if they marry again, but are unmerciful to the children, who are blameless.

The amendment was finally withdrawn.

An amendment was moved by the Aichbishop of Canterbury prohibiting Anglican Clergy from officiating at such marriages,

Lord Lansdowne warned the House of the serious responsibility it would impose upon itself if parties to these marriages were restricted to the Registrars ofhee. °

After debate, the amendment was negatived by 108 to 65.

Lord Tweedmouth's amendment, making it optional for a clergyman to allow such marriages in his church, was adop-

A BYE-ELECTION. Received 20th, 1.6 a.m.

„ , , London, August 25. Owing to Captain Hervey, sittine member for Bury Saint Edmunds, sue ceeding to the Peerage as Marquis of Bristol, the bye-election to fill the vaeaneay resulted as follows: Hon. W Harness (Conservative), 1631; ty g Vates (Liberal), 741.

(At the general election in 1906, Captam Harvey (C.) polled 1481, and M? W B. Yates (L.) 1047.