IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1715, 24 March 1888, Page 1

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

London, March 20.

Lord Rosebery, in a speech on the reform of the Lords, said (he House was becoming unwieldy, and that eix'y five new Peers had been created within the last seven years. He made a proposition that all Peers who might be exc ! uded from the House would be eligible for the Commons. In the House of Lords Lon? Rose bery, in speaking to his motion for the appointment of a Committee to report on the reform of the House of Lords, advocated that only royal peers be entitled to a hereditary seal in the Chamber; and that the English, Scottish, and Irish Peers should collectively delegate a certain number, The minority principles should be recognised, and the remainder to be elected. Agents of the larger colonies should have seats if it were desired, and the Lords and Commons should sit together in cases of dispute.

March 21,

In the House of Lords Lor 1 Harris suggested that a committee, consisting of representatives of the Treasury, Colonial, and War Offices, be appointed to consider the question of emigration of pensioners to New Zealand. In the House of Lords the Marquis of Salisbury approved of the .system of life peers, but depreqated the abolition of the hereditary principle in the Upper House.

The Conversion Bill has been passed hrough Committee,

March 22.

Mr J. Powell Williams, M.P. for Birmingham, moved an amendment in the House of Commons to the effect that all debts owing by tenants in Ireland should be dealt with on tha same basis as it was proposed that arrears ol rent should be, The amendment was carried (sic) by 15J8, to 243, Mr Pamelas Irish Lt»nd Bill has been riveted on the motion for the second reading.