BRITISH PARLIAMENT.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9035, 28 February 1908, Page 5

BRITISH PARLIAMENT.

REFORMS- JN MACEDONIA,

DEBATE IN THE HOUSE OF LORDS.

Received February 27, 9.20 a.m LONDON, February 26.

Lord Fitzmaurice, during the debate on Macedonia in the House of Lords, hinted that some of the Powers feared judicial reform. That was not what was most urgently needed to stop outrages or suppress the bands; some more efFective proposal ought to be forthcoming. The Marquis of Lansdowne. formerly Foreign Secretary, said he gathered that Great Britain was keeping an obseivant attitude.

A BILL [{EJECTED.

Received February 27, 9.20 a.m LONDON, February 26

The House of Commons negatived the proposed introduction of a Bill by Mr T. Corbett, Conservative member for Down, to appoint commissioners to enquire as to the need for inspection of monastries and convents.

SCOTTISH LAND BILL

Received February 2", 9.20 a.m. LONDON, February 26. In the House of Lords, the Earl of Campercjown's Scottish Small Landholders Bill was read a second time, despite a remark by the Earl of Crewe, President of the Council, that the Bill was an inlentional slight on the House of Commons. Lord Rosebery retorted that it emphasised the football-like precipitancy with which the House of Commons was sending up the Government Bill.