BRITISH POLITICS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8297, 28 November 1906, Page 5

BRITISH POLITICS.

A STRUGGLE FOK SUPREMACY.

Received November-27, 8.30 a; in

LONDON, November 26.

The struggle for supremacy in the Welsh paify between Mr LloydGeorge and Mi D, A. Thomas inoreaaes. '

Mr Thomas acccrsos Mr LloydGeorge of appointing a Welsh journalist to a Receivership in Bankruptcy at a salary of £7OO as a reward.

THE EDUCATION BILL,

Received

LONDON, November 27.

Mr R. MoKennfa, Financial Secretary of the Treasury, speaking at Blaenavon, said that unless the House of Lords repented the Government would not "accept a mangled Education Bill. The Government would have the Bill, the whole Biil, and nothing but the Bill,

Received November 27, 11.16 p.m. LONDON, November 2% > The Archbishop uf Canterbury, replying to a deputation of the National Society, who urged that the House of Lords should adhere to its amendments to the Education Bill, said ho would endeavour to see if n settlement was reached, that it would be what they were entitled in common decency to expeat. Unless teanhers were allowed to give denominational instruction the nominal offer of facilities embodied in the Government's Bill was prao ■ ticaliy worthless in urban areas. He had sufficient confidence in the honesty and reasonableness of the supporters of the Bill to believe that the latter wouid see the bollowness of the proposed concession.

LAND TENURE BILL.

Reoeived November 27, 9.6 p.m

LONDON, November 27. The Land Tenure Bill was read a first time in the House of Lords.