POLITICAL CRISIS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 10530, 4 December 1905, Page 2

POLITICAL CRISIS.

BALFOUR MINISTRY RESIGNS. (Press Assn.— By Telegc.ph— Copyright.) LONDON, Dec. 2. At a Cabinet meeting, it was decided to resign. It is expected that Sir H. Campbell Bannerman will accept office and go to tho country in January. The Times .says that Lord Rosebery 's attitude, Lord Spencer's illness, and Lord Ripon't- age render it possible for Sir H. Campbell Bannerman to "go loaeiB" with Mv Asqui-.li in leading the House of Commons. Mr John Redmond, speaking nt Waterford, declared that no English statesman was able to displace Home Rule as the great Imperial question of the House. The solution did not mean a scheme for devolutiqti, but an Irish Parliament with a responsible Executive. * ST. PETERSBURG, Dec. 2. Twenty Guards' officers and two Guards at Tsarskoeselo have been arrested for conspiracy. Au unconfirmed report is current tliat one of tho Grand Dukes is implicated in a plot against the Czar. There is a growing anticipation of a coup d'etat- to establish a strong military rule. 'The only troops still unsuspected of disaffection are Cossacks. Father Gapon is now in Finland. Troops who were sent to Vladivostock from Japan notify that unless informed within five days when and whither they arc to be moved they will destroy the town, shipping, and kill tlie officers. The officers are helpless, as tho troops hold the forts.