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Toadd to the difficulties which the break-up of the Ministry

has caused, it is said on good authority that the. commission on the cattle plague will report very strongly on the prospect of wide and serious loss to the agricultural capital of the country from the plague, and advise the summoning of Parliament in December. A totally new Parliament suddenly called together before

Christmas, to consider measures for arresting a great national calamity, meeting a new Ministry, and finding a new leader in the Commons, would not be a political phenomenon with many pre- cedents.

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