BRITISH POLITICS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8310, 13 December 1906, Page 5

BRITISH POLITICS.

A BUTTER BILL. Received December 12, 10 40 p.m. LONDON, December 12. Sir Edward Staohey has drafted a Butter Bill on the lines of the Butter Committee's recommendations, wbiob will be Introduced to Parliament next session. THE EDUCATION BILL. PRESS COMMENTS. Received December 12, 9.38 a.m. LONDON, December 11. There are many comments on the Government seeking to thro* the onus of the rejection r of the Education Bill on the House of Lords. The Standard sßys the Government has decided to kill the Bill. 'Che Morning Post deolares' that the last hope of a settlement is flickering in the socket. The Times says the Government has passed sentence on the Bill, and asked the Lords t > start again to negotiate with a hostile House of Commons. If the Government really wanted a .settlement; it would have offered concessions, with a plain and unmistakable guarantee. The Daily News contends -that if the Bill is lost the Nonoomformists' only hope in matters of education isgthe frank adoption of a secular solution.

IRISH PMAOE PRESERVATION ACT. THE QUESTION OF ITS RENEWAL. Reoeived December 12, 9.15 a.m. LONDON, December 11. Mr J. Redmond, the Nationalist leader, threatened tu oppose the Expiring Laws Continuance Bill, with a view of preventing the renewal of the Pectoe Preservation (Ireland) Act, 1881. Thereupon the Government quietly omitted it from the list of statutes sobeduled. The Unionists propose to move that the Act be reinstated. They emphasise Mr Morley's description of the Act as merely a polioe regulation.