IMPERIAL POLITICS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 228, 14 February 1913, Page 5

IMPERIAL POLITICS.

TJIE APPROPRIATION BILL. A VIGOROUS PROTEST. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. Received 13. 11.40 p.m. London, February .13. In tlie House of Commons Mr. Sim Ilealy appealed to the Speaker not to certify the Appropriation Bill providing for ei,800,000 extra remuneration for doctors as a money "Rill, ,»n the ground that it was overriding tiie Insurance , Act's provision of a State contribution of two-ninths. Tie characterised the Bill as one of the, grossest acts of illegality ever perpetrated by a constitutional Government. Mr. Asquith announced that the pay-) merit would be regularised legislatively next session. The Speaker promised to examine it before certifying the Bill, which was read a second time. THE AERIAL NAVIGATION BILL. A SAFETY MEASURE. London, February 13.

Tim Aerial Navigation Bill was hastily passed, practically without discussion. Tt prohibits tho passage of ai.oraft over certain areas, or. if necessary, over the whole eoasi.lino adjacent to territorial waters. Tt empowers the authorities, after giving a warning signal, to fire upon offenders. The Bill is tI:J outcome of the recent-reported appi lira neb of mysterious airships. TDK DISESTABLISHMENT HILL. DEBATE IN THE LORDS. j Received It. 12.55 p.m. London, Fehruarv ]:?. Tit (he House of Commons Mr. Tim . Hereford said that he regarded disestablishment as a measure of national justice too long dohivod. He would hove nreferred to see tlie money of which the; Church was dispossessed distributed to all denominations in Wales. I The Primate objected to the measure.] root and branch. The Bishop of Oxford demanded drastic amendments. He deplored that the Church of England could not "'aim in virtue of its establishment that it really was the Church of the noor. The Archbishop of York said that if any Church had a right to claim to be the Church of the poor it was the Anglican Church.