BRITISH POLITICS.
THE LICENSING BILL. Received July 19, 4.15 p.m. LONDON, July 18. In the House of Commons a resolution for the use of the guillotine in the debate on the Licensing Bill was carried by 209 to 89. Mr A. J Balfuor, referring to the excessive employment of the guillotine, declared that between 1886 and 1905 seven Bills had been closured by compartments, while during two and a-half sessions the present Government had closured ten Bills. In reply to Mr Balfour, Radical newspapers retort that it is six of one and half-a-dozen of the other.
A BY-ELECTION. LONDON, July 17. Polling for the by-elaction for Pembrokeshire took place yesterday, and resulted in the return of x\lr Roache, Liberal. The voting was: — Mr Roach ... 5,460 Mr J. Lort-Williams ... 0,286
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9143, 20 July 1908, Page 5
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129BRITISH POLITICS. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9143, 20 July 1908, Page 5
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