THE IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2332, 19 March 1892, Page 1

THE IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

i London, March 15. / Mr Patrick O'Brien, M.P., has introduced into the House of Commons a Bill to. remove disabilities from the Boman Catholics. March 16. The House of Commons has voted £15,000 for the suppression of foot and mouth disease, the Minister of Agri culture having stated that it is not yet extinct in England. In the House of Commons Mr T. B. Ellis, M.P. for Merionethshire, moved the second reading of the Welsh Bill oroviding for security of tenure and fair rent. The second reading was negatived by a large majority. LABOUR. London, March 15. The Durham coal-owners have issued a manifesto declining responsibility for the strike. The North-Eastern Bailway Company are taking two hundred trains from their service, The Miners Federation is refusing to allow men to work the pumps, and it is feared that some of the mines will be flooded out. The Scotch steel manufaqtnrojra have given notice of a 10 cent reduction in wages. There, ia a fortnight's supply of coal in London. The Daily News says that the royalties on coal mines, which amount to £6,000,000 per annum so overload operations as to become a legalised system of blackmail. March 16. A portion of the Barnsley miners have resumed work. The Dean Forest and, Cumberland miners resume on March 19th.