15 AUGUST 1896, Page 3

The most important decisions taken in the House of Com-

mons on Wednesday when considering the Lords' amend- ments to the Land Bill were that they disagreed (by 176 to 24) with the amendment carried by Lord Cloncurry excluding from the advantages of the Bill all pastoral holdings of a higher rateable value than £50 ; and they restored the rateable value of £100 as originally fixed by the House of Commons ; and that they also disagreed with Lord Macnaghten's amendment with relation to town parks, and omitting the clause on that sub- ject from the Bill. Lord Lansdowne's new turf-clause was accepted after some discussion, and on these two points therefore the controversy of the Commons with the House of Lords practically turned.