FEDERAL ELECTIONS

Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 78, 27 December 1919, Page 7

FEDERAL ELECTIONS

LITTLE CHANGE IN POSITION THE REFERENDUM RETURNS' (by Telcsrn Associa (ion-Co pyrii?li t (Kec. December 21, 11.15 p.m.) Sydney. December 2t. Excepting Tasmania, where Ihe count so far as complete indicates lhat Iho Nationalists woii all Ihe seats in both Ihe Mouse and Ihe Senale. the election returns slill Iravc Ihe final decision of M.ventl seals dependent upon small numbers_ of uneounlril votes and preferential alhu-alions. The Senalo ligures are incomplete, but the position is little changed. The referendum voles are now in the vieinily of a million. New South Wales, South A.uslralia, and Tasmania a.ro against, and Victoria, Queensland, and West Australia in. favour of both proposals, but Ihe total vote shows a fairly solid majority ogainsl. them, with an increasing tendency.—Pitts Assn. MEANING OF NATKMLjST VICTORY DEFEAT FOR. DISLOYALTY AND HOI.SHIOVISM. (Ecc, December 21, 11.15 p.m.) , Melbourne, Ueeemk'r 24. Mr. W. .M. Hughes, Federal Prinio Minister, in returning thanks at Bendigo oitxthe formal declaration of his election, "aid that the Nationalist victory meant a defeat: for disloyalty, direct action, Bolshevism, the "go-slow" policy, and all that was mean, paltry, and selfish in our midst, but not tho defeat of tho 1.0 hour cause, which was as sacred as ever to those who had fought for it. lie claimed that the Nationalists had a clear majority of their own in the new Parliament, and declared thiit the Nationalist clean sweep ox tho Senate was too appalling to men-tion.--Prcss Assn.