DETAILED RESULTS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 999, 14 December 1910, Page 5

DETAILED RESULTS.

TWO MINISTERIAL CONTESTS. (Rec. December 11, 0.5 a.m.) London, December 13. The following further returns' are to hand. LANCASHIRE N.E.—ROSSENDALE. *Rt. Hon. Lewis Harcourt, Colonial Secretary (L.) :. 6,G19 Mr. Hoyle (U.) 5,200 Liberal majority 1,413 [January result: Liberal , majority, 2490. Seat. Liberal, since 1892.] : ESSEX-WALTHAMSTOW. "Sir J. A. Simon (L.), SolicitorGeneral 10,998 Mr. Bellairs (IT.) 13,275 •Liberal majority 3,723 [Result at by-olection on November 2: Liberal majority, 27GG; Liberal majority in January, 2195.. Seat Conservative in 1892 and 1895; Liberal iii 1897 (by-elec-•tion);, Conservative in 1900, and Liberal in ISOG.] . 'WILTSHIRE N.-CRICKLADE. Mr. Lambert (L.) 6,937 ♦Colonel IV C. P. Calley (U.) 0,809 ■ Liberal majority. 128 . [January result: Unionist majority, 635. Seat Liberal in 1892, Unionist 'in 1895, Liberal in 1898 (by-election), and in 1900 and 1906.] 'Sitting, members. A CLEAR ISSUE. SPEECH BY MR. ASQUITH. (Reo. December 14, 0.5 a.m.) London, December 13. Mr. Asquith, : at Stowma'rket, : declared that no procedure was more entitled to' be called a referendum than, the present election. A simpler, cleaner, and clearer issue had never been presented to the country. . The issue was: Should the' people's representatives be supremo over legislation, as they already were over finance and policy.? ■ • What. was the good of the representative system if it was to bo superseded by constant appeals to tlie people on every issue of magnitude and importance? BURIAL OF THE LORDS. • MAJORITY QUITE SUFFICIENT. Rec. December 14, 0.5 a.m.) London, December 13. Mr. Lloyd-George, speaking at Newton, said an effort was being made to frighten tho people over Homo Rule. No Bill had ever been proposed giving tho Irish Parliament the slightest power over religion. The Government, Mr. Lloyd-Georgo declared, would have a majority of a hundred, which would bo quite enough to bury the. House of Lords. A SEASON OF CONCORD. SCR. CHURCHILL'S HOPE. (Rec. December 14, 0.5 a.m.) London, December 13. ' Speaking at Parkstone, Mr. Winston Churchill, Homo Secretary, said that party strife would not abate until tho Lord's Veto had been abolished. The approaching Coronation should be a season of concord, all parties and creeds participating.

"A PREPOSTEROUS SCHEME." MR. BALFOUR ON LIBERAL PLANS. (Roc. December 11, 0.15 a.m.) London, December 13. Mr. Balfour, at Dartford, said tho threat that a Radical majority would carry the Parliament Bill, and thereby settle tho matter of a Singlo Chamber. Parliament was a . boast which was not going to end the matter. The Unionists would not submit to such a preposterous scheme, hastily cooked and thrown at the heads of the two Houses. The Liberals had avoided reference to Home Rule until five hundred seatß had been fought for. It was an outrage to democracy. The Government only announced its - immediato Homo Rule Bill on Thursday, and, this was a plot to present tho country pronouncing ' judgment.

IRELAND FOR THE IRISH. NATIONALISTS AND RELIGIOUS DIFFERENCES. London, December 12. Mr. John. Redmond, Leader of the Nationalist party, speaking iu Mid-Ty-rone, asked tho Catholics to elect Mr. Macghee, a Protestant Irishman. This, ho said, would' prove that Home Rule did not mean tho ascendancy of any class or creed. They meant Ireland to be for tho Irish, whether Protestant or Catholic. • PEERS' PRIVILEGES. THE ONLY CHANGE PROPOSED. , London, December 12. The Earl of Crewe, Secretary for India, ;speakiug at Newmarket, said the only change w-hich anybody proposed in regard to the Crown's privileges was proposed by the Peers themselves—namely, to deprive the Crown of the power to create Peers.

BASELESS ALARMS,

LORD ABERDEEN ON HOME RULE. London, December 12. 1 The Earl of Aberdeen, Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, in a letter to a candidate, snys: ''After a continuous residence in Ireland for years, watching affairs, and meeting people of every class and creed, I am profoundly impressed concerning the absolute baselessness of , tho alarm about the consequences of Homo Rule." RIOTING IN CORK. POLICE AND CIVILIANS INJURED. London, December 12. The rival factions in Mid-Cork camo into collision on Sunday night. Revolvers were fired and windows smashed. The police charged and dispersed the crowd. Some of the police and a number of civilians were injured. AN ADEQUATE MAJORITY. LIBERAL PRESS VIEWS. London, December 12. The Liberal newspapers arguo that Mr. •Asquith's majority is adequate to carry his proposed legislation. They quote Mr. Balfour's interpretation of his majority of 131 in 1900.