IMPERIAL POLITICS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 116, 6 November 1911, Page 5

IMPERIAL POLITICS

NAVAL PRIZE BILL. DOMINIONS IGNORED. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright Received 6, 5.5 p.m. London, November 4. In the House of Commons the report state of the Naval Prize Bill has begun. The Opposition fruitlessly moved an amendment to secure a smaller tribunal with a view to eliminating some of the smaller countries. Sir E. Grey said the court must be drown from a wide area if it is intended to command consent. •Mr. G. B. Fallc, Unionist, declared the convention ignored the oversea dominions. Sir J. A. Simon accepted the proposal to omiit subsection clause 23, lest they exclude jurists from the oversea dominions. THE INSURANCE BILL. London, November 3. The House of Commons agreed to a clause givng a wife the option between voluntary insurance and a reduced rate in case of the discontinuance' of which she would be allowed gradually to draw two-thirds of the surrender value, onethird being retained, to provide for her possible re-entry as an employed widow. The committee also decided that aliens resident in the United Kingdom for five years and belonging to an approved society should benefit from the State funds.