IMPERIAL POLITICS
ANOTHER BTE-ELECTTON,
Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, March 6. The bye-election for Hawick, rendered necessary by the election of Mr Shaw, K.C., to the Bench, resulted as follows t Sir John Barran (Liberal) ... ... 3,028 Mr H. G. Mackinder (Tariff Reformer) ... 2,508 [At the General Election the figures were: Mr Shaw, K.C., 3,125; Sir A. Conan Doyle, 2,444.] MR KEER HARDIE PELTED. LONDON, March 6. A number of Oxford undergraduates refused Mr Keir Hardie a hearing in the Town HalL, and pelted the platform with eggs and oranges. The proceedings ended in a free fight. [Two years ago the Cambridge undergraduates distinguished themselves by a similar outbreak of hooliganism.]
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Evening Star, Issue 14002, 8 March 1909, Page 6
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109IMPERIAL POLITICS Evening Star, Issue 14002, 8 March 1909, Page 6
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