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MR. ASQUITH TO VISIT DERBY

... 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 ...

Published: Saturday 09 February 1918
Newspaper: Derby Daily Telegraph
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 126 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

PUBLIC NOTICES. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1918

... 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 ...

Published: Saturday 09 February 1918
Newspaper: Derbyshire Times
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 792 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

NOTES ON CURRENT EVENTS

... 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 ...

Published: Wednesday 13 February 1918
Newspaper: Derby Daily Telegraph
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 883 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

1131CTURE PALACE Proprietor s: Woodhouse Picture Palace. IL. WOODHOUSE

... 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 ...

LOCAL AND GENERAL NOTES. 1

... 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 ...

CHESTERFIELD LEADS: Coun, Edmunds Reviews the Food Situation. START TO, BE MADE WITH NATIONAL KITCHENS►

... in their work, and he would to the Council a postcard they had received as showing the amount of responsiility which some people attached to them in consequence of their action:— Dear Sir, I write to inform you that owing to .your tea and butter ration ...

Published: Saturday 09 February 1918
Newspaper: Derbyshire Times
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1600 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

a'ndTjeneral* valuers

... teetotal beer to teetotal people. The brewing lighter beer is unquestionably a helpful factor. So also is the restriction of drinking hours. But if the greatest factor of all is a definite change in the habits of the people (and there are shrewd observers ...

Published: Saturday 09 February 1918
Newspaper: Derbyshire Courier
County: Derbyshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 3044 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

A. T. MATTHEWS

... view of those representations and the necessity, apart from the present shortage. of an increased number of these machines for the 1918 crop, lie has taken any. and what, action? (Wednesday, 30th Jan.. 1918.) A-—Mr. Prothero: Representations were received ...