WA2K Radio is now on the air, Part 3

The only newspaper, as far as we are aware, that published the startling news of Lord RANDOLPH's resignation last Thursday morning was the Times. So for once not even the most Ultra-Liberal or Radical journal was in advance of the Times. The Pall Mall Gazette was so astonished that it thought the Jupiter must have been hoaxed, and was sent an Interviewer post haste to Lord RANDOLPH. But the ex-Chancellor was too wary a bird to be caught, and the P.M.G. Young man had to be content with interviewing Lord RANDOLPH's Secretary. Who gave the Times the private and confidential tip? Was it RANDOLPH himself? Anyhow the Times was not hoaxed though it was "taken in" everywhere and by everybody that morning.

He (Randolph) was now the recognised Conservative champion in the Lower Chamber, and when the second Salisbury administration was formed after the general election of 1886 he became Chancellor of the Exchequer and Leader of the House of Commons.
His management of the House was on the whole successful, and was marked by tact, discretion and temper. But he had never really reconciled himself with some of his colleagues, and there was a good deal of friction in his relations with them, which ended with his sudden resignation on 20 December 1886. Various motives influenced him in taking this surprising step; but the only ostensible cause was that put forward in his letter to Lord Salisbury, which was read in the House of Commons on 27 January. In this document he stated that his resignation was the result of his inability, as Chancellor of the Exchequer, to concur in the demands made on the Treasury by the ministers at the head of the naval and military establishments.

A list of the guests at the New Club last week included one "M. DE SEVERAL." No more comprehensive name since the days of Lot.