DISESTABLISHMENT

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10619, 26 April 1912, Page 5

DISESTABLISHMENT

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* m \ DEADLY BLOW TO CHKISTIANITY iMR McKENN/TixPLAINS THE I BILL'S PROVISIONS. (Received April 25, 8.5 a.m.) LOHDON, April 24. In tfli© House of Common-s, the : 'Home Secret*ury (the Bon. Reginald ■ McKenma) said ftfliat • the Welsh DisWtablislimeiit BiH' was similar to iihat 'of 1909. The present income from <endiawmen,t<s amounted to £260,000; in future it would iharvo a minimum of £B7jOOO a year. Existing incumbearfcs tcktuW continue to receive stipends. ■lflhie Ecclesiasticali Commissdonera and •the Governors of Queen Anne's bounty .would also ibe .permitted to coniribute feom Englisli sources a tsuffiI aient saim to make the inoome of - (tOie -WetsQi Orareß £IBO,OOO a year,J unhiding liffie interests valued alt £82,000, and to retain Cathedrals, j cfliiirohes . .and parsonages. Welsh j Oomimceaioneir;S would be appointed J to distribute cJuurch property, of ] ■wihich £26,700 will be given to the 1 U.rfjvior&ity of Wales anl £175,000 j goes to County Councils and districts w-Qiere it-ithes are Jeyied. J The IRcgOit Hon. Alfred Lyttelton (Uinitonist imeimlber for St. George's, •Hanover Square division), said tha/t [ the Englislli Oiurch bad gtil'l the largest denomination in Waited. The Government was dealing .a-deadly blow to dlrristiamity by the B'ilO, which violated itOxe principle of religious toleratou*. ■ Sir David Bryiimor Jones (Labour member for SwanseaX approved - the Bviil. The debate was adjourned. J (Received April 25, 10 a.m.) j 1 LONDON, April 24. The second reading of- tlve Welsh ' Risestablu-dbmenfb Billr-has been se& down for 13tih May. '