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(Per Press Association.) London, July 10. The Duke of Portland has been appointed Master of the Hou*e, Lord Raufurly Lord. in-Waiting, Sir R. Webster Attorney General. Lord Knutaford has been made a Viscount. The Times suggests in view of the Healy episode that inquiry should be made into the inmnber ef seats bought by Liberals. The Right Hon. A. J. Balfour at Manchester, discussing the question of local veto, said such measures had totally failed in Australasia and America. No form of loqal coercion could alter the tastes of the people. Hopes of the temperance advocates should be based on an improvement in the sentiments of the people. The Duke of Devonshire, in the course of an address, said that the Government believed there \vere no political reforms or oppressive grievances urgently requiring the immediate attention of Parliament. They intended to improve the material and social condition of the people, and secure a period of tranquil rest which the country sorely needed.
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Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 10, 11 July 1895, Page 2
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