AWAITING THE RESULTS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 991, 5 December 1910, Page 7

AWAITING THE RESULTS.

A WET NIGHT. CROWDS STAND HOURS IN DRIZZLING rain: . (Rec. December 5, 1.20 a.m.) By Telcerapb—Press Association—Oopyrieht. London, December 4. The election contest is exciting intense interest. Dense, eager crowds have been standing in drizzling rain for hours through the night, in London and many other centres throughout tho United Kingdom, awaiting the results of yesterday's polling, which in many cases wero not available until long after midnight. The following are the results to hand, tho names of sitting members re-elected being marked with an asterisk, and those of defeated members by a dagger. PARTY GAINS, LIBERAL (4). ROCHESTER. , Mr. E. H. Lamb (L.) 2,G00 tMr. S. F. Ridley (U.) 2,456 Majority 153 [January result: Unionist majority, 132.] CAMBER WELL (PECKHAM). "Mr. Richardson (L.) 5,027 tMr. Gooch (U.) — 4,986 Majority . 41 [January result: Unionist majority, 83.] MANCHESTER, South-West. Mr. C. T. Neodham (L.) 3,590 tMr. H. A. Coiefax (U.) __ 3,331 Majority : 259 [January result: Mr. Colefax had a majority of 107, but thero was a third candidate (Labour), who polled 1218.] EXETER. • Mr. H. St. Maur (L.) 5,786 tMr. Duko (U.) 4,782 Majority 1,004 [January result: Unionist majority, 26.] UNIONIST CDGREAT GRIMSBY. Sir G. Doughty (U.) 7,903 tMr. T. Wing (L.) 7,205 Majority -— 698 SALFORD SOUTH. Mr. C. M. Barlow (U.) * 3,666 Mr. Russell (L.) 3,439 ' Majority 227 KING'S LYNN. Mr. Inglesby (U.) L. 1,765 tMr. T. G. Bowles (Ind. Freetrader) 1,665 Majority 100 [Mr. Bowks was for many years a memiber of tho Conservative party, but a few years ago became a . "Freofooder" and Radical. His majority over the Unionist candidate in January was 262.] WARRINGTON. Mr. H. Smith (U.) 5,162 tMr. A. H. Crossfield (L.) 4,916 Majority - 246 [January result: Liberal majority, 153.] WIGAN. Mr. R. J. Neville (C.) 4,673 tMr. H. Twist (Lab.) 4,110 Majority 1 563 [January result: Labour majority 510.] ASHTON-TJNDER-LYNE. Mr. Aitken (U.) ... 4,044 tMr. A. H. Scott (L.) 3,842 Majority 202 [January result: Lib. majority, 293.] DARLINGTON. Mr. H. Piko Pease (U.) . 4,881 Mr. Maddison (L.) _ 4,775 Majority IC6 [January result: Lib. majority, 29.] UNCHANGED. LIBERAL, CAMBER WELL NORTH. *Dr. T. J. Macnamara (L.) , 5,038 Mr. S. H. Goldsmid (C.) 4,056 Majority , 982 [Januaryresult:Lib. majority, 1082.] WEST' NEWINGTON. •'Captain Cecil Norton - 4,038 Mr. W. Brookes (C.) - ' 2;49S Majority ;... - 1,540 [January rosult:Lib. maioritx, 412J

BRISTOL - EAST. *Mr. C. E. Hobhouse (L.) 7,229 Mr. (U.) 4^33 Majority 2^966 [Januaryresult:Lib. majority, 2771.] WEST HAM NORTH. f^ r - C. P. G. Masterman (L.) ... 6,657 Mr. Wild (U.) 5,700 Majority- ggy 1 [January result: Lib. majority, 890.] 1 BRISTOL NORTH. 1 *Rt; Hon. Augustine Bixrell (L.) 6 410 Sir. Philip Magnus (U.) 5 024 ' . Majority 1,386 [January result : ; Lib. majority, 1,346.] J MANCHESTER, NORTH-WEST. 'Sir George Kemp (L.) 5 559 Mr. Law 5^4 Majority J„ 4 45 [January result: Lib. majority, 783.] READING. j 'Sir Rufus • Isaacs, K.C. (L.) 5 094 ' Mr. Wilson (U.)... _ 4'g§s 1 Majority gg [January result: Lib. majority, 207.] UNOPPOSED RETURNS. j LIBERAL. Swansea 1 District.—Sir D. Brymor Jones. Morpeth—Rt. Hon.' Thomas Burt. Manchester South.—Mr. A. A. Haworth. Northumberland, Wansbeck Division. —Mr. C. Eenwick. Yorkshire, Barnslcy Division.—Sir Joseph Walton. UNIONIST. City of London.—Rt. Hon. A. J. Balfour, Leader of tho Opposition.. Birmingham West.—Rt. Hon. Joseph Chamberlain. City of London. —Sir. F. G. Banbury. Birmingham, Bordesle^—Rt. Hon. Jesse Coilings. Dover. —Put. Hon. G. Wyndham. Somerset, Wellington Division.—Sir A. F. Acland-Hood, Bt. Oxford University.—Lord Hugh Cecil. Oxford University.—Sir William R. Anson, Bt. Surrey, Wimbledon Division.—Rt. Hon. Henry Chaplin. Dublin University.—Rt. Hon. Sir Edward Carson. Dublin University.—Rt. Hon. James H. M. Campbell. Kent, St. Augustine's Division.—Rt. Hon. A. Akers-Douglas. NATIONALIST. Waterford City—Mr. John E. Redmond, Leader of tho Nationalist Party. UNLUCKY CANDIDATES. NOMINATIONS TOO LATE. . London, December 2. Owing to tlio absenco of tho Socialist candidate and the impossibility . of correcting his nomination paper, a three-cornered contest at West Salford was avoided. Mr. A. A. Haworth (Liberal) has been re-elected unopposed for South Manchester, as Mr. Glazebrook, his Unionist opvxment, mistaking tho time, arrived sis minutes too late. JEWS IN EVIDENCE. MANY CANDIDATES, London, Decembor 2. There are thirty-six Jewish candidates contesting seats at the election —: twenty Liberals and sixteen. Unionists. In two London constituencies all the candidates aro Jews. A NEW HEAVEN AND EARTH. (Rec. December 4, 5.5 p.m.) London, December 4. Mr. Winston Churchill, Homo Secre- j tary, who had spoken at Cheshire earlier in tho day, took 'a special train to ! Grimsby, and spoke till midnight in opposition to Mr. Balfour. Relays of motors carried fragments of Mr. Balfour's speech, to cnablo Mr. Churchill to reply. He said that if tho Lords' reforms were supported they would creato a now heaven and a new earth, and very likely-n new something else. Thoy would also bo thoroughly deinocra- ] tic, thoroughly impartial, and thorough- ' ly Tor}\ j CAMPAIGN SPEECHES. • 1 A GAGGED SINGLE CHAMBER. (Rec. December 4, 5.5 p.m.) London, December 3. Tho olection campaign is being actively continued by tho leading orators.. of both thojDolitical parties, 'J'

Mr. Balfour addressed a gathering of 10,000 at Grimsby, ou behalf- of Sir George Doughty, the Liberal Unionist candidate who was defeated in January i by Mr. Tom Wing, Liberal. Mr. Balfour said men of moderate opinions wore coming over to the Conservatives. If the Liberals' proposals were carried the time when tlic Houso of Commons was a place of free debate would be gone for ever. The Government meant to give one-Chamber rule, that Chamber working under the gag. The actions of the Houso of Commons under the group system may not in tho least represent the people's settled will. TARIFF REFORM OR NOTHING. (Rec. December 4, 5.5 p.m.) London) December 3. Mr. Austen Chamberlain, in a speech at Darlington, declared that if a Unionist Government was in power it would framo a Tariff Reform measure which, if electors disliked it, and said no to it, would be tho signal for his retirement from tho Government. FANTASTIC TALK. London] December 2. Lord Morley, Lord President of the Council, speaking at Darvren, in. Lancashire, recalled the fact that Lord Rosebery and himself were the only surviving members of the Gladstone Cabinet of 1886. Lord Rosebery never cried out against American dollars then. . Tho Conservatives, continued Lord Morley, wero watering down, not abandoning, tho hereditary principles. There was a deal of fantastic, ill-considered, and ill-informed talk about the referendum, which would destroy tho Parliamentary system* DESPERATE COUNSEL. London, December 3. Sir Edward Grey, Foreign Secretary, in a speech at Portsmouth, said that Mr. Balfour's declaration, about tho referendum was the counsel of desperate men and looked 1 mnch liko jettisoning Tariff Reform. The question of Homo Rule" for Ireland was unfit for a referendum -to the whole of the United Kingdom. If they were going to submit a constitutional question .to the country, let it bo tho question of general 1 devolution. ' J 'A PRIMROSE STRIPLING. London, December 3,. Tho Hon. Neil Primrose, youngest ~ son of tho Earl of Rosebery, speaking I at Wisbeck, for which lie seeks reelection, said ho was not a Homo Ruler. It would be passible for tho Irish to manage a few more of their own I affairs, but ho would never give them full management. 1 MORE APAERICAN DOLLARS. SUBSCRIPTIONS FROM ALL . QUARTERS. (Rec. December 4, 5.5 p.m.) New York, December 3. ' Tho American United Irish League is sending £2000 in aid of the Nationalists' fight in Great Britain. Subscriptions are arriving from everywhore in tho United States. PRESS COMMENT. OPPOSITIONIST TAUNTS. London, December 2. The Opposition papers taunt the Government's' supporters with opposing the reforendum becauso it will destroy tho sj'stem of groups and coalescing of factions as witnessed iu recent years. AUSTRIAN OPINION. Vienna, December 2. Tho newspaper "Fredenblatt" considers that tho establishment of the referendum would imply tho greatest Constitutional revolution in England since Magna Charta, but it fears that it would expose tho country to a perpetual party straggle, and result in the enfecblemojit of Parliament.