ME. BALFOUR ILL.
' London, December 20. Mr. Balfour is suifermg from pulmonary catarrh. ■ PROTEST IN THE NAME OF DEFENCE. London, December 20. The Middle-class Defence Organisation and the Imperial Maritime League have issued a joint manifesto against the growth of conflfcatory legislation and the inadequate provision for defence. 'LIBERAL DEFECTIONS. 1 London, Deccmbor 20. Mr. Edward Johnson Ferguson (chairman of the Liberals W Dumfriesshire), Sir Josoph Jonas (chairman of the Attorcliffe Division), Mr. A. J. Hobwn (chairman of the Sheffield Chamber of Commerce), and Sir John Swmbnrno (a retired naval captain who owns about 20,000 ncres) have withdrawn their support from tho Government, owing to the Budget and Home Kule questions. ''LABOUR AND~LIfiERALS. ' TRIANGULAR CONTESTS IN 51 SEATS.' London, December 20. Triangular contests are threatened for fifty, foui seats, Unless the Labour Party Conference sitting at Manchester decides to withdraw its candidates - The wnly inopposed candidates are fifteen .Conservatives and Unionists, one Liberal, and one Labourite. s
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 696, 22 December 1909, Page 7
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157ME. BALFOUR ILL. Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 696, 22 December 1909, Page 7
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