ROUGH ON MR. BALFOUR.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 165, 14 April 1916, Page 1 (Supplement)

ROUGH ON MR. BALFOUR.

Truly, the war Ims ueen ros;i(.:idible for some strange sights: Whoever would have thought that a Cabinet .Minister would make a speech from the stage of the Empire Theatre, and especially such a very s'aid Cabinet Minister as Mr. B.ilfour? And yet his recent speech on the Navy at that theatre was taken (juite a* a matter of course, and was one of tl:-.« best he has ever madeOne would have imagined ti*a ; Mr. Baifour was about a,s well knrwi as any British alive, but even :s quito unknown to some people. A former .VI.P. for Ipswich used to tell a funny story concerning a visi, Mr. Balfour once paid to that town The streets were thronged with people anxious to welcomo him, ami ;i large force of police was in evidtnco to keep order among them. A dear old lady, who found herself in the crowd, war- astonished to sco so many men in 1 '-v. and asked a neighbour for whom o vvero waiting. "For Mr. Balfour," !■'.•■ v.:,? : V "Ah, well." said the old i.idy \. th a sigh, "I suppose if the poor i.-nn has done :in> thing wrong ho has to suffer for it."