IMPERIAL POLITICS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 82, 15 July 1910, Page 5

IMPERIAL POLITICS.

WOMEN'S FRANCHISE BILL.

By Ca-ble.-Press As«ociation.--OopyrigM London, July 13. ' The voting on the Women's Franchise Bill was: Ayes, Liberals 109, Unionists 88, Labor 32, Rationalists 20; Noes, Liberals 113, Unionists 60, Labor 2, Nationalists 14. CENSUS BILL. London, T '.'.'y 13. The Census Bill for Irei. ~a, which includes a question about religion, passed through committee in the House of Lords without discussion. IMMIGRATION REGULATIONS. London, July 13. In the House of Commons, Colonel Beeley, in reply to Mr. P. Snowden, stated that Lord Crewe was addressing a communication to Canada concerning the the hardships arising out of the immigration regulations. COUNTY MAGISTRATES. London, July 13. A Royal Commission recommends the Crown to continue to appoint magistrates with the assistance of a County Committee for their selection. It also Tecommends that working men should be eligible, NAVAL CONSTRUCTION. COMPULSORY INSTALMENT OF WIRELESS. Received July 14, 10.10 p.m. London, July 14. In the House of Commons, Sir John McEenna informed Mr. J. T. Middlemore that, excluding armored cruisers for the; Dominions, ten British and fifteen Ger-. man armored ships were now being constructed or were ordered. j Mr. Asquith, in reply to Viscount' Maitland, said it was inadvisable at present to intimate what arrangements were in progress for the next Imperial Conference. Sir E bassoon's Bill for the compulsory installation of wireless on 'passenger ships, was read a first time. Mr. Redmond Barry, K.C, explained 1 that the constabulary were only return-1 ing to their owners the rifles which had been voluntarily surrendered, as the Tooms wherein they were stored were' required for accommodation of recruits. I

Received July 14, 11.10 p.m. London, Julv 14. In the House of Commons, Mr. i\squith. in reply to Mr. A. IT. Lee, said Lord Kitchener was no longer a member of the Inrperial Defence' Committee. A meeting of upwards of fortv Liberal Commoners, Mr. Murray McDonald presiding, forwarded to Mr. Asquith, an emphatic protest against the new shipbuilding vote. Some difference of opinion is expressed regarding" the desirability, in Tiew of the gravity of the constitutional issue, of dividing against the Government.