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THE CROOKED STICK. 4 And took the crooked sticked at last ?” ——— ** Even so 0.”

... duties as M.P. for his native: county with zeal and independence. Wonderfu! to say, he neither ratted nor sneaked ; and yet Whigs, Tories, and Radicals treated him with deference and respect. He had long been the husband of her who, when our sketch was ...

NOTES

... undoubted abilit{l. Sir William Harcourt has ripened with the times. In days gone by he used defiantly to boast that he was a Whig. As Home Secretary, he was a Saul to the Irish. But he has now got salvation, and is | a very Paul breathing fire and vengeance ...

NOTABILITIES OF THE DAY

... had held office in all Mr. Gladstone's Ministries, down to the short-lived Government of 1886, whes he was one of the few Whigs, by tradition, who adopted Home Rule. Mr. Glng:‘une has been many times a visitor at Frognal, where Lord Sydney spent the greater ...

STRAIGHT TO THE MARK- . OR A WINNING DART.{

... was soon ready for sailing, and in due time she was near one of the Pacific whali grounds, not far from the same latitude in whig the Condor was when Swain was lost. She had lately met with some severe weather, and one of her timbers—a beam close to the ...

DEATH OF THE EARL OF

... waters on the Minto estate for purposes of legitimate angling. In politics he wasa Liberal, but belonged rather to the old Whig school than to the more advanced section. He occasionally spoke both in the House of Lords, and on public platforms, his utterances ...

Published: Friday 20 March 1891
Newspaper: Hawick News and Border Chronicle
County: Roxburghshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 2245 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

JATH OF THE EARL OF

... public the .rs on the Minto estate for nurposes of timate angling. In politics he wasa Liberal, belonged rather to the old Whig school than 2e more advanced section. He occasionally ...

Published: Friday 20 March 1891
Newspaper: Hawick News and Border Chronicle
County: Roxburghshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1432 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

LORD MONCREIFF ON LORD

... Minto, stood high in the councils of the Liberal party, was a member of the first Grey Cabinet, and had great weight in the Whig Administration. So much was this the case that gainsayers were apt to say that to be a Grey or an Elliot was a passport to ...

ESTABLISHED 1851,

... efactunl, — Cantion. —Th. P . ruovdinar vwmvu tae cfi.\cw‘--f &!.'--'r xAyne teu vr of vite \N&lb.‘a should chtain the enmive, whig % 8 Government stamp, bearine the wo J. N{'M'l Chlorodyne,” See +vasion of Vies =fi-wr Fage Woud, the Tvevs, Jolv b, 101 D rine ...

{ 10 be continued, ) NOTABILITIES OF THE DAY

... and st as the Whig member for South Durham from 1841 to 1859, wgon he was elected for Hastings, which constituency he n‘s-rvunud till 1864. After his accession to the duchy he ceased 10 take much interest in politics. Originally & \Whig, he afrerwards ...

MR DEWAR FAILS TO DRAW THE

... expreesed wishes of the people of these lands, the monarchy in a word would not be worth ten years' purchase; and the Minister, Whig or Tory, who proposed to use the veto of the Sovereign as a substantial force in retarding the progress of the people or the ...

Published: Friday 25 September 1891
Newspaper: Hawick News and Border Chronicle
County: Roxburghshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 4574 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

BURGH SCHOOL BOARD,

... the exercise of the Royal into play in defiance « constitutionally vxpres these lands, the monarch, worth ten years' purch: Whig or Tory, who pro the Sovereign as a subs the progress of the people wisdom it had shaped ard be an enemy of the & would shake ...

Published: Friday 25 September 1891
Newspaper: Hawick News and Border Chronicle
County: Roxburghshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 3538 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

CONFERENCE AT HAWICK

... find this great question solved, as f 0 many temperance measures for Scotland had been, by the Conservative party dishing the Whigs— (laughter)—and they would never be content until they captured both parties, and | got the question into the domain of national ...

Published: Friday 18 December 1891
Newspaper: Hawick News and Border Chronicle
County: Roxburghshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1706 | Page: 4 | Tags: none