IMPERIAL POLITICS.
WAR OFFICE REFORMS.
LONDON, November 20. Sir Charles Welby, private secretary t& the Marquis of Lansdowne (late' Secretary of War), has been appointed temporary Assistant - Under-secretary of State, without salary,, to assist in the reorganisation of the War Office. Mr -Wyndham is touring the congested,, districts on the west coast of Ireland. " . . November '21. ; The Right Hon. Horace Plunkett, member of the Irish Congested District Board, who was defeated for Dublin South by the landlords putting up another candidate, was banqueted at Dublin, and presented with a .memorial signed by 20,000, urging that his retirement from his post- would bo a national calamity. Lord Dufferin, presiding, declared that the tribute represented every shade of polities, religion, and classes. Mr Plunkett, replying to the toast/ hinted that he would be unable mucht longer to retain the post. Possibly the difficulty might ultimately be overcome. - The Times interprets the speech that Mr Plunkett is likely to be- offered election, elsewhere.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2437, 28 November 1900, Page 18
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