How Titles are Bought

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXV, Issue 19, 9 May 1907, Page 28

How Titles are Bought

Mr. T. Gibson Bowles, the well-known Conservative M.P., in refusing a subscription to a Tory Association, writes :— ' As to subscriptions, I cannot conceive that the Conservative Party can need to appeal for these elsewhere than to Mr. BaMour and Sir A. Acland Hood, who are in possession and exclusive" control of the party fund. That fund is immense. Not many years ago it was over £100,000, but at the last election it must have been far greater, for the contributions to it of certain recent recipients of titles 'nave, if common report is to be believed, varied between £30,000 from a n©w 'knight and £250,000 from a new peer. It was 1 calculated a year ago that at least £500,000 m-ust bave teen encashed'toom. various sources by this pai-ty fund, arid it is impossible so vast a sum can have been expended over the general election.'