EXTRAORDINARY INCIDENT.

West Coast Times, 13 December 1909, Page 3

EXTRAORDINARY INCIDENT.

A STATESMAN IN TEARS.

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LONDON, December 11.

Mr Lloyd George exhibited his Celtic temperament at Carnarvon where, after announcing he would never forsake Carnarvon for Cardiff, was so much moved by his hearer's enthusiasm that he burst into tears and resumed his seat without finishing his speech, where in at the outset he had declared that neither Ireland nor Wales can. ever obtain their rights except by marching over the ruins of the Lords, adding, "When the Liberals win this fight, there will be a new earth.".

The Budget Protest League has been dissolved having attained its object. It issued 20,000,000 leaflets, 300,000 posters, arranged 350 large meetings, and many thousand smaller meetings. The Earl of Portsmouth disapproving of the Budget, declines to assist the Liberal campaign. Various organisations have amalgamated with the Central Conservative Office in London.

Mr Sutherland, speaking at the annual meeting of the Peninsular and Orient Shipping Company, said that the prospects of the freight markets weve better than for three years. We shipowners are instinctively free traders as we revel in free imports. But we see that the protection which foreign countries extend their shipping it gives us cause to think curiously and we wonder what the future wil lbe.

The Navy League after being reconstructed on a more, democratic basis, reported a great increase in membership.