NEWS FROM 100 YEARS AGO : 27 March 1925

27 MARCH 1925

On the motion of Lord Desborough, Lord Carson’s Moneylenders Bill was in the House of Lords referred to a joint committee of both Houses. The Legitimacy Bill passed the committee stage with drafting amendments, and Lord Balfour of Burleigh introduced the Circuit Courts and Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Bill, which was read a first time.

A general discussion with regard to unemployment took place in the House of Commons, speakers of all parties dwelling on the grave industrial outlook.

Mr Baldwin, speaking in London, suggested that, in order to gain fuller knowledge of Imperial problems, a parliamentary delegation should visit Australia next year.

The Scottish Grand Committee considering the Church of Scotland (Property and Endowments) Bill discussed the clauses dealing with the transfer of right in parish churches and manses, sitting accommodation in parish churches, rights in glebes, the transfer of parish churchyards, and they were added to the Bill. The general clause that the requirements of the parish be a first charge on endowments was under discussion when the committee adjourned.

The Inter-Departmental Committee on proposed disciplinary amendments of the Army and Air Force Acts, in their report, state that they cannot recommend that the death penalty should be abandoned as the extreme penalty for the most serious military offences on active service.

The Marquis Curzon was buried in the family vault in East Kedleston Church, Derbyshire.

A Strasbourg telegram reports a mining accident, in which it is feared 50 men have been killed.