BRITISH POLITICS.
AN EIGHT HOUR'S BILL
LONDON, February 14
Mr Will Thorne, Labour M.P., backed by nine Labour members of the House of Commons, will introduce a Bill to restrict the hours, of labour to eight daily iivall trades and industries on sea and land. TV Bill provides for a penalty of not less than a hundred pounds for each offence.
A BY-ELECTION,
LONDON, February 14
The by-election for South Leeds, caused by the death of Sir J. Lawson Walton, resulted :
Mr Midcllebrook, Liberal - 5,274 Mr Nevilb, Conservative 4,915 Mr Fox, Labour 1,451
THE ARMY AND NAVY
EXPENDITURE MUST BE KEPT WITHIN BOUNDS.
Received February 16, 4.36 p.m LONDON, February 15.
"The Nation," a Liberal weekly paper, edited by Mr H. W. Massingham, late editor of the London "Daily Chronicle," states that if the Hon. Pv. B. Haldane, Secretary of War, and Lord Tweedmoutb, First Lord of the Admiralty, are unable to keep the cost of the Army and Navy within the bounds Democratic members of the House of Commons are willing to sanction they must give place to others who will do so.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9057, 17 February 1908, Page 5
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184BRITISH POLITICS. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9057, 17 February 1908, Page 5
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