SCENE IN THE COMMONS.
There were touching and impress* ive scones in the House of Commons. All the members were in mourning, their complete silence testifying the depth of their emotion. Mr Balfour, Leader of the Housp, though suffering from the aftereffects of influenza, in a broken voice announced his attention to move today that an address be presented to the Queen, praying that unless inconsistent with Mr Gladstone's wishes he be accorded q public funeral and a monument in Westminster Abbey, as expressing the publio admiration and Parliament's high sense of the rare and splendid gifts he had devoted to his labours in Parliament and to great offiices of State, The house then silently adjourned. The Lords did not sit, When Mr Balfour rose in the House of Commons every head waa un^ covered.
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Manawatu Herald, 24 May 1898, Page 2
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135SCENE IN THE COMMONS. Manawatu Herald, 24 May 1898, Page 2
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