FEDERAL ELECTIONS.

Press, Volume LVI, Issue 16724, 6 January 1920, Page 7

FEDERAL ELECTIONS.

♦ ! N.S.W. SENATE RETURNS. t c v (By Cable—Press Asroeii'.ior.—Copyright.) (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) (Uc-ceivcd January oth, 10. iX) p.m.) a SYDNEY, January 5. I Serjeant "Walter Duncan (National- c ist) won tiio sccond Nc;v South Wales c scat in tho Senate. It appears to bo c cor lain that tho third scat will ro to s Mr Albert Gardiner (Labour) npsct- t tins tiio earlier calculations that the t Nauonnlists would win oil tho New South Wales coats. THE BALLAItAT ELECTION. j j SYDNEY, January 5. h The Labour Party has decided to ap- | c peal to the High Court in connexion | 1 with tho Ballarat election, in which i < Major Kirbv. Nationalist, has n majo- I J rity of ono over Mr McGratlf, the j ' Labour candidate. i 1 < LABOUE PARTY'S DEFEAT. i 1 ( (Received January nth, 10.20 p.m.) ] BRISBANE, January 5. ■ Mr Hipgs, deputy loader of tno La- j bour Party in the Federal Parliament, ■ j in returning thanks for his election, I 1 snid tho Labour Party had failed dis- i ; mallv in its attempt to win n majority I ; of tlie scats. The foiluro was largely j ] , to the outsido Esecutivo con- | ' trolling tho Parliamentary Labour , Party, and dictating itr; policy. Soma | ' of theso men, who pretended to bo R(?- : volutionists, were most impracticable j , nnd impossible, yet they considered , themselves entitled to interpret tho Labour platform and dictate its policy. , Hp strongly condomred Lnliour's attitudo asainst the Boforondmn proposals, nnd Fusrpested seeking a coalition with tho Farmers' Party, in order , to meet the row nnlitical situation. jreLBOTT]?NE, January 5. . Tho president of tTio Australian La- > bour Party declared that Mr Hir"rs's t suggestion of n coalition witli the Far-. | mors' Party, was i.npnssiblo. It meant j! compromise, nnd it was essential that : | the Labour Partv should remain freo , and untrammelled.