28 AUGUST 1909, page 2

Later, After Some More Observations In The Interroga-...

Mr. Whitley pointed out that old-age pensions had contributed to alter the circumstances. Thereupon Mr. Will Thorne asked: "Would it not be much better to give them Home-rule......

The Result Of This Amendment, If Accepted, Will Be To

do what we have so often advocated in these columns,—i.e., make it clear that the State, while anxious to favour access to parks and other open spaces for purposes of......

Another Interesting Statement Made At Question-time On...

by Mr. Haldane. He stated that a case had recently occurred where an infantry Reservist was discharged by his employers in consequence of his having attended for his one day's......

The Westminster Gazette Of Tuesday Published A Despatch...

Berlin correspondent giving a remarkable account of a Referendum as to the value of co-education in which all the teachers in the high schools of Baden took part. The general......

In The House Of Commons On Tuesday A Confused And

somewhat topsy-turvy' conversation took place on an answer made by Mr. Whitley to a question about Irish finance. It is estimated that in the current year the revenue......

We Have Dealt Elsewhere With The Gigantic Delusion That...

development can really increase the wealth of the nation. It must, rather, empty its pm-se, and, still worse, sterilise its energies. Here we will only say that if the Unionist......

On Thursday Mr. Lloyd George Introduced The Develop- Ment...

The Bill allows the Treasury to make free grants and loans for developing forestry, agriculture, and rural industries; reclaiming and draining land ; constructing and improving......

We Record With No Small Satisfaction That Lord Robert Cecil,

always vigilant where higher and non-partisan interests are concerned, is going to move a very useful and important amendment to the clause in the Budget which exempts from the......

The Financial Clauses Of The Bill Create A Special Fund

out of which payments under the Bill are to be made. This fund is to be supplied by : (1) Sums annually voted by Parlia- ment ; (2) a sum of E2,500,040 charged on the......