Parliament adjourned yesterday until November @, though it is sible that it will be called together on August $0 to re-enact for another month the Emergency Regulations, which cannot be enforced for more than a month at any time. The coal strike is in exactly the same posi tion as it was three months ago. The so called Church intervention merely recommends a subsidy without any guarantee that at the end the suggested months' period for the re-organization of the Mines the miners will accept any reduction of wages. Probably the Stril sooner or later end by the miners drifting back, though this will not be yet while. Mean.
the loss to the country is very) considerable; already it 4s estimated that 150,000,000 sterling is a moderate figure, although in 1921 waen the Coal Strike lasted almost: as long the estimate was 200,000,000. sterling. A substantial number of new Bills have been passed. Throuzh the Board of Guardians (Default) Bill power has been given to the Minister of Health to deal effective. [ly with Boards which he themselves to be inc managing their own affairs. Two Bills bearing directly on the coa! dispute have been -pasced. and) various amendments to the Criminal Law have been made, including aa inereuse of penalties for certain offences. The registration of maternity homes has been made com. pulsory, and wayside petrol pumps jand other modern measuring instruments have been brought withi the powers of Local Authorities aa regards inspection for accuracy.' By. the passage of the Re-Election of Ministers Bill members who are appointed to hold offices of profit under the Crown more than rie months -after the opening of Parliament are absolved from the necessity of recontesting their seats, A large amount of important legislation has been left over in a half-completed stage for further consideration in the autumn, This cludes the Electricity (Supply) Bill, the Bill to regulate the reporting of judicial proceedings, the Berchandise Marks Bill, and the Bill to Jamend the law which governs money-
Tenders, Meantime the British Association is meeting at Oxford and the Prince of Wales in his Presidential address Inst night expressed the of that the solution of practically all our domestic and social problems would be found only by scientific methods. Remerking that cancer stood out with evil pre-eminence mong the bating problems of disease, the Prince welcomed recent more favourable portents:—"At length there are signs of more rapid progress towards a penetration of its secret. There is a new spirit of hope and enthusiasm." industrial side the Pris that although as a nati quickened, we are not in the uptake of the results of applied scientific research as some of otty commercial competitors."
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