IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.
LoNDoir, March 20. In the House of Commons, the Government have introduced a Bill affirming the principle of 48 hours per week in the dockyards. In the House of Commons Lord Randolph Churchill moved a vote of censure on Lord Rosebery, on the ground that the latter’s speech at Edinburgh had influenced the Leith election. Sir William Vernon Haroonrt, Chancellor of the Exchequer, in reply said that several members of the House of Lords, as members of the Primrose League, habitually interfered in elections. Mr A. J. Balfour, ex-Secretary for Ireland, and leader of the Opposition in the House of Commons, declined to support the motion, whereupon Lord Randolph Churchill withdrew it. The new Registration Act is to be the first measure discussed during this session of Parliament. It provides that the period of residence qualifying an elector be reduced, and that Parliamentary elections (general) be on the same day ; further that the roll of the electors be revised half-yearly. The Government are appointing a departmental committee to consider the question of mail contracts. The Chancellor of the Exchequer estimates that the expenditure for the year will amount to £55,000,000 which is the largest on record.
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Temuka Leader, Issue 2636, 22 March 1894, Page 4
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198IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. Temuka Leader, Issue 2636, 22 March 1894, Page 4
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