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BRITISH POLITICS.

THE FINANCE BILL

AN ALL-NIGHT SITTING

CTahed Press Association —By Electric Telegraph' Copy right. Received July 16, 9.20 a.m. LONDON, July 15.

"Fhe House of Commons sat for eighteen and-a-half hours discussing the Government's Finance Bill in Committee. Ministers and members were frequently asleep. A- small; body of Unionists constituted a' relentless criticism of the Chancellor's- financial pioposals. Mr> Lloyd-George proposed that the closure should be applied to thirty-two lines of the Bill, but the Right Hon.- A. Emmott, Chairman of the Committee, refused 'to accept the' motion.

Finally several blocks were wiped out to>the end of clause* 5.

Hie Imperial Maritime League is promoting a > widespread agitation to the Hbuse of Lords to reject the Finance Bill, and thus compel a dissolution of Parliament on questions of' defence..

CHEAP DIVORCE. DEBATE IN HOUSE OF LORDS. A - MOTION WITHDRAWN. Rfeeeived July 16, 8.30 a.m. LONDON, July 15.

In the House of Lords an animated debate arose on Lord Gorell's motion in favour of cheaper divorce courts in the interests of the poorer classes. Lord Gorell incidentally remarked that If r " the drifik practice could be abolished the Divorce Court might close its-doors. The Archbishop of Canterbury strongly opposed the motion, which was withdrawn after the Marquis of Lansdowne had supported a suggestion by Lords Halifax and Lorebiirn (Lord Chancellor) as to the desirability ol the appointment of a Royal Commission to enquire into the whole subject, including, as Lord Lorebum remarked, the publi* cation of "a mass of dirty stuff" in some newspaners.

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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9545, 17 July 1909, Page 5

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255

BRITISH POLITICS. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9545, 17 July 1909, Page 5

BRITISH POLITICS. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9545, 17 July 1909, Page 5

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