LATEST RESULTS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 994, 8 December 1910, Page 5

LATEST RESULTS.

TWO ELECTIONS COMPAREP, A. LIGHTER POLLING. London, December 6. The percentage of electors polling yesterday was 74 per cent, of the number on the roils, as compared with 80 per cent, in January. Polling is proceeding m the borough apd country constituencies.. The following further .returns are announced:— PARTY CASNS. LIBERAL. BURNLEY. Mr. Morrell (L.) 6,177 *My. G/A. Arbuthnot (U.) „ 6,001 Liberal majority ~ •■•■■••• 1??

[January result: Unionist majority, 05. Liberal, Conservative, and Labour members hive been returned on different occasions.] COVENTRY-. Mr. Mason (L.) 7,351 niv. fonneth Foster (U.) 6,828 Liberal majority '..,...,.,.., 523. [January result; Unionist majority, 2,16. Radical returned in 1892, Conserve tives in 1895 and 1900, and Liberal in ISWW '' ' SOUTHWARK WEST. Mr.. Strauss (L.) 3,028 •Sir W. H. Dunn (U.) 3,010 Liberal majority - . 18 [January result: Unionist majority, lfii; Liberals wero returned from 1692 to 190 C] • STJNDERLAND. Two members returned. Mr. Hamar Greenwood (L.) 11,007 Mr. Goldstpno (Lab.) '.... 11,291 Mr.-Hicks (U.) ....10,300' Mr. Samuel (U.) 10,132 Liberal majority ' -. 1,097 < Labour majority - 391 ' [January result: Labour ~ majority, 805; Unionist majority, 741.] LABOUR. ' WHITEHAVEN. Mr. Richardson (Lab.) Mli *Lieut.-Col. J. A. Jackson (U.) ...... 1,220 Labour majority 194 [January result: Unionist majority, 336. Liberal returned in 1892, Conservatives in 1895 and 1900, and Liberal in '1906.] • WOOLWICH. ■Mr. W. Crooks (Lab.) 8,252 'Major W. A. Adam .(TJ.) „ 8,016 Labour majority 236 [January result: Unionist majority, 295. Seat Conservative until 1903, when Mr. Crooks was elected at a by-election, and re-elected, in 1900.]

UNIONIST. ST. HELENS. Mr. Rigby Swift (U.) 6,010 *Mr. T. Glover (Lab.) 5,752 Unionist majority ; 261 [January result: Labdur majority, 795. Seat won by Mr. Glover in 1306, previously consistently Conservative.] UNCHANGED. LIBERAL. ' BATTERSEA. ' •Right Hon. John Burns (L.) ...... 7,836 Mr. Harrington (U.) ,6.541 Mr. Shaw (Socialist) 487 Liberal majority 1.202 [January result: Liberal majority, 552. Mr. Burns has sat for. Battersca since 1892.]. ■ UNIONIST, STRAND. 'Right Hon. W. H. Long (U.) ...... 4,144 Mr. Earle (L.) , US9 Unionist majority - 3.005 [January result: Unionist majority, 3213. Seat consistently Conservative.] CUMBERLAND-MID (PENRITH). Et. Hon. J. W. Lowther (U.)—Returned unopposed. NATIONALIST, MAYO EAST. Mr, John Dillon (Nat.)— Returned unop, posed. ANOTHER ELECTION PREDICTED. LONDON AND .TORYISM. (Eec. December 7, 10.50 p.m.) London, Decembor 7. Tho "Financial News" statos thnt an-' other • general election is now pretty clearly indicated. Before it occurs the country will doubtless see. a scheme of redistribution of seats arranged by aleanfl ef another Conference. Tho "Daily News" states that tho present general election will be remembered as tho London eleetic*i, in which London broko tho back of Toryism and destroyed the Lords' veto, London's example, tho "News" declares, has inspired the rest of tho country. MR. REDMOND'S HOME RULE. NOT DANGEROUS. (Eec. December 8, 0.25 a.m.) London, December 7, Sis Edward Groy, Forolffii Seorotary,

speaking at Louth, said tho Homo Rulo which Mr. Redmond had declared would eatisfy Ireland would not mean separation, or bo dangerous to the, Imperial supremacy. "ASTUTE POLICY OF SILENCE."MR. ASQUITH ON HOME RULE. (Rec. December 7, 10.50 p.m.) London, December 7. Mr. Balfour, speaking at Chester, challenged Mr. Asquith to disclose his Homo Rulo policy. Ho said if pebplo knew' tho increased burdens and other dangers of Homo Rule they would revolt against it, but tho Liberals were determined to keep tho people in ignorance, hence their nstuto policy of eilence, dictated by Mr. Redmond.

"MERE MALE SUFFRAGETTE. , ' SPEECH BY LORD DERBY. CRec. December 7, 10.50 p.m.) London, December 7. The Earl of Derby, at a Unionist meeting nt Lancaster, in. comparing tho Government's veto resolution with Lord Rosebery's and Lord Lansdowne's proposals, said he confessed that he relinquished his hereditary right without a qualm of conscience, because he believed he could render infinitely better service to the State by sitting in the House of Lords as tho representative of a great city than as his. father's son. Under the Liberals' Parliament Bill, however, ho would be voteless, and a mere male suffragette. THE PEOPLE IN THE DARK, TARIFF" REFORM PROSPECTS. (Rec. December 8, 0.25 a.m.) London, December 7* Mr. F. E. Smith, Unionist, in a speech at Runcorn, declared that if the Government got a majority nobody knew what sort of Home Rule they would introduce. The people under the Veto Bill were'- invited to. make the greatest sacrifice and the greatest repudiation of power a democracy would ever make. Mr. Smith, said tho prospects of Tariff Reform were encouraging, since at Manchester, the Free-trade stronghold, qn 4 poll of 22.00Q, the Liberals had only. a majority of 3000 votes.

THE IMPERIAL TIE. CONSTITUTIONAL SAFEGUARDS. London, December 6. Sir H. lumber (Unionist), speaking at Wandsworth, for which ho seeks re-elec-tion, said ho agreed with Mr. Nisbet, the Canadian ex-judge, that there was a donkey of the colonies feeling that the tie? with the Mother Country would be loosened by tho crippling of constitutional safeguards. CONSTITUTIONAL CHANGE. ME, WTNDHAM'S VIEW. (Rec. Dec. 7, 10.50 p.m.) Lpfldon, Decembet 7. Mr. George Wyudham, at Stourbridge, stid that whatever the result, pf tho elections, half tho electors would declare against the Government should it change tho Constitution, ami mo Constitution could stand which was based on only half the voters of tho country. REFERENDUM AND HOME RULE. VIEWS OF SIR EDWARD GREY.' London, December G. Sir Edward Grey, Secretary for Foreign Affairs, speaking at Wooler, Northumberland, said that to ask the Government to submit the question of,-Home fiule to a referendum, apart from a scheme of devolution and redistribution, of which it formed part, was equivalent to asking the Protectionists'to submit tho food taxes of a Tariff Reform Budget to a referendum. With tho referendum there would be no need for Lords or Com-inons-a staff of drafting clerks would be all that was necessary. In view of the Socialist attacks on the Government, Sir Edward , added, talk of a Liberal-Socialist alliance was all moonshine. . GIVEN TO SOUTH AFRICA. London, December 6. Tho Marquis of Lansdowne, Unionist leader in tho House of Lords, speaking at Cardiff, declared that their opponents forgot to say that they found a place for the referendum in the Constitution given to South Africa.

A WANTON DISSOLUTION. LOED EOSEBERY ON LIBERAL TYRANNY. London, December 6. Lord Rosebery, in a message to Scotland through the "Glasgow Herald," declares that the dissolution of Parliament was the most wanton • and reckless the country had ever known. Thereby tho Government proposed to establish the tyranny of Single Chamber Government, to preseTve the hereditary constitution of the House of Lords, and to alter by a catch-election the immemorial balance of the Constitution. Moreover, they refused to refer the question of Irish Home Rule direct to the decision of tlio people. a liberal peer, away with~the lords. London, December 6. Earl Spencer (Liberal), in tho course of a epeech, stnted that he believed that before long the country would say to the Lords: "Away with, you if you will not comply with our wishes." He declared i himself as staunch a Home Ruler as ever. His Lordship added that he wanted to know much more about the referendum before adhering to it. A CHALLENGE ANSV/ERED. GOVERNMENT INCONSISTENCY. London, Deconiber 6. The Unionist leader (Mr. Balfour), in a 6peeoh at Sheffield, alluding to the referendum—which it was proposed to call a poll of the people, and which would not be taken on party lines—said the Unionists were challenged whether they would accept a poll on the question of tariff reform. Their opponents expected a refusal, but when, unfortunately for Mr. Asquith, the Unionists were consistent, they turned round and described it as a party subterfuge. So different, added Mr. Balfour, were the feelings of a man when ho said, "Come-on!" and his feelings when his antagonist responded. LOED HENEAGE CONVERTED. London, December G. Lord Heneage (Liberal) and tho Eight Hon. Henry Hobhouse (Unionist), ex-mem-ber for East Somerset, warmly support Mr. Balfour's policy. '