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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10713, 18 January 1913, Page 5

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MR BALFOUR'S MOTION ■ REJECTED. HILL READ A THIRD TIME. (Received January 17, 2 p.m.) LONDON, January 16. Mr Balfour's motion was rejected by 308 votes to 258, and the Bill read a third time, the voting being:—^ .For the third reading 367 Against 2.57 Majority for 110 The result was received with lusty cheers from Ministerialists and Nationalists. The Nationalists shouted themselves hoarse, and cheered Messrs Parnoll, Redmond, Asquith .and the British democracy. There was frantic cheering from a crowd that filled the outer lobby. At a demonstration at Whitehall the re .were cheers and counter cheers, and some cries of "Ulster will fight!" A demonstration took place outside the Constitutional Club, where the result of the division was received with groans. The Right Hon F. E. Smith, Unionist nveml>er for the Walton division of Liverpool, addressed the crowd. He said the fate of the Bill was not determined in the House of Commons, but in the streets of Belfast. The Bill has .been read a first time in the House of Lords. There is much excitement in Belfast, where the Bill was publicly burned.