BRITISH POLITICS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8372, 5 March 1907, Page 5

BRITISH POLITICS.

PASSIVE RESISTERS RELIEF BILL. Received March 4, 9.35 p.m. LONDON, March 4. Mr R. McKenna's Passive Resisters Relief Bill imposes on denominational schools in London an extra burden of £30,000.

THE LABOUR PARTY

Received March 4, 10.55 p.m

LONDON, March 4

Mr Keir Hardie, speaking at Hull, declared that but for the presence of the Labourites in the House of Commons there would have been no Bill for feeding hungry children in schools, no Workmen's Compensation Bill worth the paper it was written on, and the Trades Disputes Bill would have been a half-hearted settlement of the matter. The Labourites would not countenance any relief from taxation until the old age pensions had been secured. They were preparing a "Right to Work" Bill, which would create an authority to find honest work at an honest wage for every man and woman.

EXPLOSION OF DYNAMITE.

TWENTY WORKMEN INJURED. Received March 4, 10.55 p.m. NEW YORK, March 4. explosion of dynamite injured 20 workmen in the Pennsylvania railway tunnel under the river at New Jersey. The shock was felt a distance of 60 miles.

AN ITALIAN KILLED. WORKMEN HAVE A MARVELLOUS ESCAPE. DOZENS OF BUILDINGS WRECKED. Received March 4, 11 p.m. LONDON, March 4. The Daily Mail states that the explosion violently shook the entire area of Greater New York. One Italian was killed. He dropped some hot ashes on a case of dynamite, which, igniting, spread to the magazine, at the mouth of the tunnel, containing a hundred tons of explosives. One hundred workmen were in the tunnel at the time, and had a marvellous escape. An enormous hole was torn in the ground, and dozens of buildings were wrecked.