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Hope Hall, Halifax. - Regrets having missed Houghton in the House of Lords; Mr Baxter agrees with Houghton's suggestion.

Pontefract [embossed with Pontefract town seal]. - Election result; Major Waterhouse spent nearly £300 on tea parties to bribe cottagers; Liberals now united; Lord Pollington cut a miserable figure; harvest; Masonic Lodge; [postscript]: 20% of the Knottingley voters were illiterate.

On embossed headed notepaper, Darrington Hall [crossed through], Pontefract. - Damaging effects of Waterhouse’s canvassing; Liberals can only win by bribery; scruples forbid this and seat is not worth purchase price for a few months’ tenure; favours resignation over probable defeat. Adds postscript: James Heywood agrees