BRITISH POLITICS.
THE EDUCATION BILL. deceived November 14, 8.39 a.m. LiONDON, November 13. Dr Clifford, in a speech delivered at Newcastle, said if the House of Lords persisted m the amendments to the Education Bill the Nonconformists might assert the rigbt of insurrection against the tyranny and refuse to pay the taxes. The people, he added, must create a Second Chamber on democratic lines, end the bishops must go. Dr Clifford also aooused the Arohbiahop of Canterbury of acting with the Romanists, who were trying to get a grip on the State. Received November 14, 11.4 p.m. LONDON, November 14. Mr A. Birrell, President of the Board of Education, speaking at Bristol, said the House of Lords Education Bill was the offspring of a mixed marriage of the Churoh and State with the inherited weaknesses of both parents without the strength nf either. The Government had no use for such a measure which from the Houbo of Commons standpoint (Liberal or Tory) was seen to be an impossibility. Everybody declared that the Act of 1902 was far preferable. He hoped that the House of Lords would early recognise that they had gone too far. "I hope," said Mr Birrell, "that they will aooept our Bill, whioh is according to the pledges we have given, and intend to keep. Otherwise the constitution must be altered. It was inadmissible that measures backed by great electoral majorities should be mutilated and destroyed by an unrepresentative assembly." DEBATE ON LAND TENURE] BILL. Keceived November 14, 8.50 a.m. LONDON, November 13. The House of Commons had a stormy aU nigbt sitting discussing the Land Tenure Bill, i (The otjeot of the Land Tenure Bill is to extend, oheapen, and simplify the law of compensation for tenant Improvement. A tenant may, on tbe termination of his lbase, claim compensation for addition to tbe agricultural valae of his faoldlnsr, for damages to his crop by game which if; is not lawful for himtojkill, and for unreasonable disturbance in his holding)
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8287, 15 November 1906, Page 5
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333BRITISH POLITICS. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8287, 15 November 1906, Page 5
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