BRITISH POLITICS.
SPEECH BY MR BUXTON,
LONDON, January 17
The Right Hon. Sydney Buxton, Postmaster-General, speaking at Edinburgh, said he was not a pedantic freetrader, and within the limits of controversy there were matters whereon all were agreed. He eulogised the Right Hon. D. LloydGeorge's Merchant Shipping Act, placing foreign ships entering British ports, under the same conditions as British ships. He also praised the Patents Act. He would, he said, certaiv.ly give no preference in trade to the foreigner. A BYE-ELECTION. Received January 19, 5.2 p.m. LONDON, January 18. A bye-election at Mid' Devon to fill the vacancy caused by the sitting member, Mr H. T. Eve, being appointed a member of the High Court, resulted as follows: Captain E. F. Morrison Bel!,' Unionist 5,191 Mr Buxton, Liberal 4,632
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9032, 20 January 1908, Page 5
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130BRITISH POLITICS. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9032, 20 January 1908, Page 5
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