BRITISH POLITICS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8346, 31 January 1907, Page 5

BRITISH POLITICS.

Received January 30, 8.14 a.m. LONDON, January 29. The Archbishop of Canterbury (the Most Rev. Randall Davidson) addressing the Diocesan Education Society at Ramsgate, stated that if the Government would begin afresh on a simpler plan, and with a genuine desire to meet the difficulties shown in recent debates the prospects of success were not inconsiderable. It would, he added, be deplorable if the Government repudiated the virtual bargain made in 1870, that denominational teaching be maintained in the schools which the church had built at a cost of £25,000,000. Received January 30, 9.48 p.m. LONDON, January 30. ! Mr Lloyd George, President of the Board of Trade, informed the Walsall Chamber of Commerce that the Government were conducting a searching investigation into the in- / dustries of foreign countries, especi- ' ally Germany, with a view to improving the Commercial Intelligence Department of the Board of Trade and the Consular service. A census of the industrial production would reveal our • true national position, whether we were going backward or forward. If the facts smashed his fi&cal theories, the sooner they came the better. The Government intended to revise the patent laws compelling foreigners possessing British protection to work their patents here. THE LORDS AND COMMONS. Received January 30, 10.5 p.m. LONDON, January 30. The Earl of„ Crewe, speaking at Twerton, said that the Government would never admit the Lords' claim to force a dissolution. A representative House must have the last word.