BRITISH POLITICS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8316, 20 December 1906, Page 5

BRITISH POLITICS.

TSE education bill

Received December 19,10.5 p.m. LONDON, December 19.

Yesterday was spent in active ne eotiatious in connection with the Education Bill. Mr Balfour and Lords Lansdowne and Saint Alci wyn and the Archbishop of Canterbury, Lord Crewe, and Messrs Birrell andAsquith, conferred. The Unionists claimed that head teachers an well as assistants should be allowed to volunteer to give religious instruction in urban schools; also, that one teaoher in each single school area shoulil be available for the same service. These the Government refused. Later the Duke of Devonshire, Visoount Goschen, the Archbishop of Canterbury and others, conferred with Mr Balfour.

It ia expected that the Uouse of Lords will return the Bill to the House of Commons.

A COMMISSION OF INQUIRY

Received December 19, 9.53 p, no,

LONDON, December 19

Iu the House of Commons Mr H. Gladstone, replying to Sir Charles Dilke, said that the Government proposed to send a commission to inquire on the spot as to the effect of the wages board and compulsory Arbitration Act in Australia and New Zealand, aIBO the result of the early closing of shops legislation.

Received December 19, 10.50 p.m

LONDON, December 19.'

Sir llenry Campball-Banuerman promised q deputation of 150 Liberal members of the House of Commons that a measure for the separate valuation of land values would bp included in the Government programme next session. This would be a preliminary to a wider measure of reform in the same direction.