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Show LORD BALFOUR THINKS PEARY IS IN THE LEAD NEW YORK, Sent. IS. Lord Balfour" Bal-four" of England, who is a. member of tho commission appointed b- King Ed ward to protect colonial trade, arrived toda3r on the steamer Campania from Jjivorpool. lie is on his way to Canada to adjust a "difference" in the commerce com-merce between Canada and the West Indies. In regard to the north pole dispute. Lord Balfour said: "The general beliof in England i; that tho claims of Peary, aro more sub stantial than those of Cook. Much of this opinion snrines from tho slate incuts of tho scientific men of England mnmX of whom have been skeptical about the claims of Cook from thr start." |