IMPERIAL POLITICS
CABLEGRAMS
3 [UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION] (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH—COPYRIGHT)
A SEAT FOR MR BALFOUR.
London, January 24 Out of the twenty-six latest returns no less than twelve give Liberal and two Labour gains. Sir Edward Grey (Foreign Secretary) has been returned for the Berwick Devudon of Northumberland by amajoritrad 2300. The state of the partiesrfe. vised to include the latest returns new: Liberals ... ... 331 Labour ... ... 50 Irish Notionalists ... 77 Unionists ... ... 142 Total 600 The Hon. Alban Gibbs, member for London City, offered to resign in Mr Arthur Balfour’s favour. Mr Balfour baa gratefully accepted the offer on public grounds. It is unlikely that be will be opposed. Mr John Burns, at the instigation of the Battersea borough, engaged two thousand unemployed at road-making.
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Waikato Argus, Volume XX, Issue 3092, 27 January 1906, Page 2
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124IMPERIAL POLITICS Waikato Argus, Volume XX, Issue 3092, 27 January 1906, Page 2
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