"AS YOU WERE!"

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1003, 19 December 1910, Page 7

"AS YOU WERE!"

~ c— ELECTIONS ALMOST OVER. JANUARY FIGURES REPEATED IN DETAIL. GOVERNMENT LEAD OF 124.

By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Rec. Dec, 19, 0.15 a.m.) London, December 18. All but six mombers of the new Parliament have been elected, and the Government majority now stands at 122, as against 124 at the conclusion of tho General Elections in January.

In England two seats have yet to be filled. To restore the position in January each party would have to gain one of these seats.

The Welsh returns are complete, and represent a gain of one seat by the Unionists.

Two Scottish contests have to be decided, and tho Government is two behind its January figures.

In Ireland two seats also remain unfilled, and the Unionists need two more supporters to be where they wero after the last elections. .

The position of parties now stands as follows, the number of members required for each part of the United Kingdom being shown in parentheses: Government. Unionist. England (465) 225 238 Wales (30) 27 3 Scotland (72) ; 59 11 Ireland (103) 82 19 . 393 271 The position of parties at the conclusion of the January elections . was as follows:— Government. Unionist. England ....... 226 239 Wales : ..... 28 " 2 Scotland '. '61 11 Ireland . : 82 21 397 273 DETAILS OF CONTESTS. MR. HALDANE'S MAJORITY SINKS. (Rec. December' 18, 5.5 p.m.) London, December. 17. 'The following additional results of the elections have been received:— HADDINGTONSHIRE. "Right Hon. R. B. Haldane, Sec- ' retary for War (L.) 3,845 Mr. B. Hall Blyth (U.) 3,158 Liberal majority 687 [January result: Liberal majority, 745. Scat Liberal since 1892.]

OXFORDSHIRE-BANBURY. Hon. E. Fiennes (L.) 3,629 'Captain R. B. Brassey (U.) ... 3,516 Liberal majority ; 113 [January result: Unionist . majority, 113. Scat Liboral in -1892; Unionist in 1895 and 1900; and Liberal in 1906.] STAFFORDSHIRE—LEEK. Mr. R. Pearce (L.) 5,742 Colonel Bromley-Davenport; (U.) 5,152 ■ Liberal majority 590 [January result: Unionist majority, 10. Seat Unionist 1892, 1895, and 1900.. Liberal in 1906.] ... , : DERBYSHIRE.—ILKESTON. 'Colonel Scely, TJnder-Secretary for the Colonies (L.) ......... 9,990 Mr. Freeman (U.) 5,946: Liberal majority 4,044 [At by-election in February, Liberal majority 3333., Seat Liberal since 1892.] MONTGOMERY DISTRICT. • Col. E. Price Jones (U.) 1,522 Mr. Owen (L.) 1,468 Unionist majority 54 [January result: Liberal majority, 13. Seat Unionist 1892 and 1900. Liberal in 1906]. DERBYSHIRE—HIGH PEAK. Mr. S. Hill-Wood (U.) 5,813 *Mr. O. Partington (L.) 5,629

Unionist majority...... . 184 [January result: Liberal majority, 106.' Seat Unionist in 1892 and .1895, and Liberal sinco 1900.] CORK COUNTY-SOUTH. Mr. Walsh (O'Brienite) 2,346 "Mr. E. Barry (Redmondite) ... 2,184 O'Brienite majority 162 [Mr. Barry has been returned unopposed at every election since 1892,] ST. ANDREWS BURGHS. Major Anstruther Gray (U.) ... 1,675 •Mr. J. D. Millar (L.) ~ 1,626 Unionist majority , 49 [January result: Liberal majority, 38. Seat "Liberal since 1892, Largest. Liberal majority, 196 in 1895.] DUBLIN COUNTY;—SOUTH. Mr. W. Cotton (Nat.) 5,223 •Captain Bryan Cooper (U.) 5,090 Nationalist majority 133 [January result: Unionist majority, 74. Seat Unionist hi 1892 and 1895; Nationalist in 1900; and Unionist in 1906.] "Sitting members. THE LABOUR PARTY. A GAIN OF TWO MEMBERS. (Rec. December 19, 0.15 a.m.) London, December 18. Kerry is the last Nationalist gain from the O'Brienitcs. Forty-two Labour members have been elected, as against 40 in January. The total, however, includes eight members of the Independent Labour party. THE PARLIAMENT BILL. LORDS DETERMINED TO FIGHT. London, December 16. The Earl of Selborne (formerly High Commissioner of South Africa), in speaking at St. Andrews, Fifeshire, referred to the Parliament Bill, and said the House of Lords would not hesitate at any effort to defeat the Government's object. The Duke of Marlborough confidently predicts that the Parliament Bill would never bccomo law.