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̈“A RULE BY THE TORIES."
D. H. MOTH'S LONG FLIGHT,
ATTACK ON. LORDS REFORM
PROPOSALS..
LABOUR'S CENSURE
MOTION.
There was a crowded House of Commons last month, the Peera Gallery being filled, when Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, who was re- ceived with loud Labour cheers,. rose to move the following vote of censure of the Government:
ON WAY FROM LONDON TO AUSTRALIA.
The latest news to hand of Mr. Donnis Rooke, the British civilan, who is making the first attempt at a long distance flight in a Do Havilland Moth biplane, the type of aeroplane used in the Light Aero Clubs at Home, is that to reached Allahabad on Monday, last, says the Straits Times.
As previously stated in the Straits Times,
tances.
A
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The garments of primitive man were usually simple and, if they covered the body, suspended from. the shoulders. The garments of civilized man are, numerous and KASHGAR fantastic and suspended from the RAWALPINDI natural points of protuberance in MOREA Mr. Rooke is the human body.
*DEVANHA making this fight for the purpose of proving the reliability of the ders were regularly worn for sus- MALWA There was a time when suspen- KHYBER light aeroplane for long dispending the trousers in a position KASHMIR
comfortable and modest. Calls at Fort Sudan, Nowadays the belt, seems largely. to have displaced the suspenders, although conservative persons of portly figure are likely to indulgo in both,
Presumably constrictions at the waist are undesirable, although good, scientific evidence as to any harm being done by wearing a belt tight enough to hold up the trou- sers is not yet available.
Collars worn tight enough to constrict the neck
may Cause
That this House regrets that The Government has put forward a scheme for fundamental changes in the House of Lords which gerrymanders the Constitution in
IIe proposes to fly, as far the interests of the Conservative Australia. It is not yet known party, deprives the House of Com-whether he intends making the mans of that control over finance return journey.
The Asiatic Petroleum Co. are which it has possessed for genera- tions, entrenches the House offdelling Mr. Rooke's machine at Lords on a hereditary basis more the various stopping places from firmly against the people's will India to Australia. than for centuries past, and in de- It is stated that Mr. Rooke's fiance of every precedent of mo- stopping place in Malaya, will be dern times. robs the clectors of Talping, in Perak. power to deal with the House of Lords; and this House declares that it will be an outrage on the Constitution to force, such pro- posals through the Parliament without a mandate" from the people.
Mr. MacDonald said the Prime Minister and the Government would require to explain why this resolution had been put on the paper.
pounding noises in the ear and
Garters worn tight enough to constrict the blood vessels in the leg may he associated with vari- cose veins, pains in the feet, swell- ing of the ankles and similar dis- turbances. If the garters are worn loose, and if they are of a wide web, they are not likely to produce any serious harm.
Tight. Hats.
An interesting list has recently been compiled of strange w headache. made by residents of New York. Mr. Isidor Carfunkel, despite his wealth, bequeathed the bulk of his property to charity, cutting off his daughter with a legacy of £10 because she had refused six years previously to shut a window at his request. Dr. William Schroe On June 29, the Lord Chancel der eut off his wife with 4s. be lor, in another place, made a cause, he alleged, she had failed apeech, which since then he him, and bequeathed his son am thought had eclipsed the major namesake d., requesting that The hat that presses too tightly part of our political interest. It they be not consulted regarding upon the skull may be associated was a speech which bore all the his funeral, and leaving most of with an interference of the cir traces of official instruction and his estate to his housekeeper, culation to the scalp and perhaps inspiration. It was { speech Mrs. Nellie Wood directed that with the falling of hair, although which we are informed had been her personal effects be auctioned this has not been proyed definitely. delivered after full reflection, off to the highest bidder among In other words, there seems to be We were told that the proposals her three sons. Mrs. Louisa C. made by the Lord Chancellor had Goode inserted the following clause Xood evidence that clothing which first of all been produced by an her will: Bury me, nice, into greatly constricts the body is Committee of the Cabinet, and a nice coffin, with automobiles, ot healthful and should be avoid- having been considered and pro- Funeral stop at Trommer's and duced by that Committee. it had have a good dinner."
Women have discarded the been discussed by the Cabinet, and
Armour that produced the what the Lord Chancellor was
wasp waist of II past gen- announcing was practically on the
eration, and the modern sup. instructions and with the know-over the House of Commons, and part or modifier of the figure is the House which was to enjoy, that A hygienic garment. Otherwise ascendancy was one, which
was the problem of constrictive cloth-
ledge of the Cabinet.
Two other Ministers took part in
ed.
the debate, and one of them went firmly based upon the heredilarying does not seem to concern the.
the length of saying that not only were these proposals the result of Cabinet decision but that that
decision and been carried still further and that before this Parlia- ruent came to an end, these
principle.
He denounced the policy of the
Government, which proposed to
deprive the House of Cominens of its position of being the sole au pro-thority with regard to the disposal
posals would be embodied in a Bill and carried through the House.
Revolt on Back Benches. There was no doubt as to what was in the minds of the Govern ment and the Lord Chancellor on June 20. There had since been
of national finance.
feminine, sex, except so far as tightly rolled stockings.
Such constrictions are not advis
able, particularly during a child- bearing period, since they have been quile definitely associated The working of this proposed with the occurrence of varicose constitution meant that whoever veins. Rubber garments of any was in office, the Tories would be type, which do not permit satis in power.
(Labour cheers.) He factory ventilation of the skin, was not at all sure that the Prime may be the cause of maceration of Minister, so far as he had agreed the skin and secondary infection. to this, had agreed to it with a great sense of relief.
So long as he remained head of a serious Tevolt on the benches the Government, he had an 'ex- behind the Prime Minister. (La-ceedingly difficult job, but he pro- bour laughter.) According toposed to give up that job and when figures which had been supplied he sat on the Opposition bench, to him. 80 members had shown he would still be ruling authority. hostility, 103 had shown such a They did not care what was go- lukewarm interest in supporting ing to happen in the ballot boxes the Government, that their in- in the future. General elections terest amounted to a warning that were going to be a mere farce. if they were pushed a little fur- ther they would cease to do it al together, and 14 had endorsed the ргороваїв.
constitution, and there was no
He was old-fashioned enough to believe that the first place not the second place, for an announce ment like that to be made was the House of Commons, (Opposition
“Being Fooled."
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D'ANNUNZIO'S ART PALACE.
POET'S PLAYS IN EVERY
ITALIAN TOWN,
Poets-like prophets some Limes complain of receiving ing sufficient honour in their own country,
Italian Government.
ed.
the
No Prime Minister with any
Gabriele d'Annunzio, Italy's self-respect would undertake the! As soon as his friends read the arduous and thankless duties of soldier-dramatist, who has some- speech, they thought the Govern-being responsible for the Govern-times expressed dissatisfaction on ment would do the only decent ment of this country and at the that score, is now to receive 12, and proper thing, and give the same time be in a position where very generous tribute from House an opportunity of consi- he could not guarantee that what! dering what had happened. The he and his colleagues desired His tragedies are to be per- proposals made in the other place should be done, because they be formed in every city in Italy dur very seriously curtalled the pri-lieved it ought to be done in the ing a senson which begins in Sep- vileges of the House of Commonsnational interests, would sit there
tember. They made very fundamental al-and feel that up there (the House
A company has been chosen and terations in the structure of the of Lords) there was a permanent manager appointed by the Na- doubt that they trenched upon the ing after national affairs, but plays, which has just been found- Tory block charged, not with look-tional Institute for D'Annunzian Royal prerogative.
with looking after Tory affairs.
The one thing which the poet (Labour cheers.)
There was not a man with any loves is his historical villa, the self-respect who would take that Victorial, on Lake Garda, which position because he would feel he has gifted, after his death, to he was being made a fool of, and the State.
Any sum left over after the ex- that instead of having to deal with The Opposition were denied an opportunity to discuss the subject, working constitution, he had to penses of the season are paid will deal with a machine which con-go for the completion of D'Annus- interesting and the only alternative open to demned him to failure before he zio's extraordinarily Sure. Various amendments had began his work,
The house is now quite unlike been put down but he was told the principle that no power in the simple cottage it was origin- i that none of them would be moved. the constitution was going to be ally. To-day it would be a fitting.
United Against Censure. able to decide its dissolution ex residence for a monarch..
cept itself. We shall not Bur- The Government could not get render, he declared, the right to a united vote except on a negation. dissolve ourselves. (Opposition They would be a united party on cheers.).. nothing except that they did not want the Government to be cen- sured.
cheera)
then was to move a vote of cen-
The House had always stood for
Premier's Statement. The Prime Minister, who follow.
A proposal had been made thated the leader of the "Opposition, was going seriously to change for said the question of the reform the worse the political temper of the House of Lords was' Cx* of this country. It was going toplicit in the Parliament Act. The change the confidence that out-belief in the necessity for a Sec siders had in Parliament, and was end Chamber was held, he imagin going to orientate their political ed, by a large majority of the minds.
people of this country.
garden.
Sculpors, artists, stained-glass experts, architects, house decora tors, and painters, all devoted followers of. D'Annunzio, have worked marvels in the regal en- trance, and the ten other rooms with their own special names.
The first performance of the season will be given in the garden of D'Annunzlo's villa, the seating capacity of the open-air theatre being for 500 spectators. Tickets will cost £12 each.
In order to obviate the ringing down of a curtain and the change two It would certainly. continue to Mr. Baldwin, continuing, said of scenery, there will be
500 seats In influence polities long after those there could be nowadays no quca- stages, each with who were on the stage to-day had tion of a Second Chamber becom-front.
Instead of shifting the scenery, coused to play any part in mun-ling a really effective rival of the
change their dane affairs. The proposals limi-House of Commons, What was the audience will ted the constitutional privileges called the Speakers veto did places, and seat themselves in of individual peers and thereby throw a difficult and individious front of the second stage...
There will be no artificial light- of the task upon the holder of that great limited the prerogative
ing at this performance. The Crown. They fixed the member-omee. There could be no queВ- ship of the House of Lords and tion of finance being initiated in play will be so timed that the last thereby established for ever an the House of Lords nor of a scene will be acted, just as in the
tragedy, at sunset-time, ascendancy of the House of Lords charge being increased.
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13th Aug.
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30th Sept. 6,000 1 28th Oct.
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8th Aug.
10th Aug.
10,953
5,233
9.114
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