BRITISH POLITICS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 116, 7 May 1908, Page 3

BRITISH POLITICS.

THE licensing BILL. ' HKCO-SD reading OVERWHELMINGLY CARRIED. London, .May In the House of Coiuiuous the aiiieitd-

Inient proposed by -Mr. Cave (Ccuservative member lor Surrey) with the obI ject ol defeating the Licensing Bill was I rejected by a majority of 2»0. The Bill was then read a second time by ol)4 to 19S, and referred to the Committee of the whole House. -Mr. 11. 11. Asijuitlt, Premier, it was not true that the listing of a lime limit for licenses to run before tiieir monopoly value should be token over bv the Government was a cimfUcatorv measure. He remarked that supposing tl„. Chancellor of the Exchequer proposed an absconding scale o! license duticJ that would not be called confiscation.

| Ik» was not proposing to take tin- monopoly value in "that way, step bv'sleo. but allowed fifteen years' notic,. <iu,-|i,d->ng Ihe year granted for the I m«*nl of tin l licenSt-d promises).

ihe majority in lamr ol tin* LUni*. WiH L-Onijutjicl of |j|„. ri | ■sl Labor members, three Nationalists' j aiiu seven Unionists. Many Liberals openly declare |i,.,1 pir.-V •*' »'<• Lords will reject the Bill unless drastic amendments are made in committee.

IRISH UNDER-SECRETARY

T„ .. .. , London, May 5. In the House of Commons Mr \ Birrell Secretary for Irejtmd, 'slated in reply to a fjiicstion asked bv Air Lonsdale (member of Mid-Anna.-!,! tlirvf' R """Shertv would succeed Sir Anthony McDonnell as (.'mler Seerelnc for Ireland. THE EDUCATION BILL.

P „„ ~ , London, Mav 5. t , e olv «rhampton election, ne- . itated by the elevation of Sir n a the CathoHc • ps of Birmingham are warmlv sunP«rfng Mr. Amery. t l,e UnionisT^di-

iIR. CHURCHTLL 1N T TROITILE . London. Va\- :> A pertinacious Irish a handbill, Mr. ci„ .r*w.«»i.i- K;,,,?,': connection wi t iM,^ kilam "■OWCTffAMPT^T.V E-El.E,"my. j A NAl!i:o\v WIN". I

Received J(ay ii. li.in , lm Ti. ii* i London, M;i v fi Tin- Wolverhampton Ki<t In., i„ ircMiltcl _/■ ti " r " l>l ">«-■-I'lcilinn r<- uited -f. Jlionip (Liberal). -i.n ( - " - ilUPr . v Unionist) ' ,h e. tmonM vote, a ,„] , <rea-e in the Liberal -tlt-n^ti,. ~