... amending the constitution rules the federation, which passing the Representation of the People Act necessitates, in order to bring them into line with the new conditions which this Act and the accompanying Redistribution Seats will set up. Mr. Asquith ...

... this House towards the Corn Production Act when it was before the House; they are doing it in spite of the fact that they thought that in proportional representation they saw some chance of getting better representation in this House in the future than in ...

... this House towards the Corn Production Act when was before the Honse; they are doing it in spite of the fact that they thought that in proportional representation they saw some chance of getting better representation in this House in the future than in the ...

... Government business. THE REFORM BILL. The House again proceeded to the conaideration of the Lords' amendments on the Representation the People Bill. A large number of amendments dealing with the clause applying the bill Scotland were agreed with some minor ...

... Commons agreed to a com• promise about Proportional Representation. The Reform Bill was ac- The Reform Act. cordingly passed; but a Commission is to be set up to recommend a scheme of Proportional Representation applicable to 100 constituencies. The report of ...

... Joh, contained a vigorous preterit against some of the restrictions impe4ed. and said that farmers were unite patr:otie Al people ;n other oceupations. The .Litetnent of accounts shdiwctl a balance of IMO Li, 7d, Mr. T. Ilarnoin nas re-ele,ted chairman ...

... popular will. The strike may not over for somo days. Indeed, there is a possibility, amounting almost probability, that the very acts of violence to which tbo Government are resorting may have the effect of prolonging the conflict some extent. But so far as ...

... accountable for the acts of barbarity which have stained the records this great war, hut it clear from a Milan dispatch, published by a London contemporary, to-day, that tho treatment Italian prisoners by their old enemies is as vile any acts of persecution ...

... Association to he the candidate at the next general election for the Leek for which he is the sitting member. Under the Representation ot the People Bill a new Parliamentary Division has been created in Derbyshire, making three constituent i ce — Chesterfield ...

... scenes, ent;tled Ben Blair. Right throughout the five reels the story foseinntee and thrills. AGED PEOPLE'S TEA. --- The annual for the aged people and widows of Woodhouse was held on Tuesday last in the Wesleyan Schoolroom. The parish had been canvassed ...

... boundaries? What will dene while tho present men remain office? I am not one those stupid people who that the Clay Cross Co. has no right to have representation on the Council. large ratepayers —and ratepayers who ought to lie contributing more to the ...

... hold the submarine menace; it must he definitely defeated, or at least rendered negligible, S. • a THE REFORM ACT. The Representation of the People Bill, the present Parliatnent'eoutstanding work of constituWonal reform, after one idternative vote, found ...