"PEPPERING" THE CABINET.
SUFFRAGETTES -UP TO SNUFF." LONDON". February 7. Envelopes marked private, full of pepj*r and snuff, continue zo reach the memkrs of the Cabiret. Mr. C". E. Hobhouse (Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster) victimised to-day, while Mr. F. D. •itbnd i Under secretary for Foreign Af«ns blind for two hours through Pepper flyins out of an envelope he opened. the Hou.-o of Commons was disrassing the House of Lords' amendments » the Scottish Temperance Bill a man in "fc strangers' gallery shouted, protesting JgaiDst the treatment of the suffracettcs tt prison. Scwrn] suffragettes were sentenced to .ems ~f [ mra ti)rPo tn ,- vp Tlirm ths in the Kror.rl rlivision for window smashing. Lr-tiorn Cohen was discharged fur the *tra«p i n tlle -jWer of London, where Jf= broke the class case containing the wfers of Merit. The jury could not "era that th« extent of thedaraace was her £5,
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Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 34, 8 February 1913, Page 5
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150"PEPPERING" THE CABINET. Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 34, 8 February 1913, Page 5
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