BRITISH ELECTIONS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 931, 15 December 1910, Page 3

BRITISH ELECTIONS.

London, Dec. 12. The Liberal newspapers argue that Mr Asquith’s majority is adequate, and they quote Mr Balfour’s interpretation of his majority in 1900 in support of their claim. The Earl of Aberdeen, in a letter to a candidate, says : “ After continuous residence in Ireland for years, watching its affairs, and meeting people of every class and creed there, I am profoundly impressed concerning the absolute baselessness of the alarm about the consequences of Home Rule.’’ Rival political factions at MidCork came into collision on Sunday night. Revolvers were fired and windows smashed. The police charged the mob, and some men on both sides were injured. The Earl of Crewe, Colonial Secretary, speaking at Newmarket, said that the only change which anybody proposed in regard to the Crown’s privileges was that suggested by the peers themselves —namely, to deprive the Crown of the power to create peers. Walthamstow. —Sir J. A. Simon, Solicitor-General, 16,998 ; Lieut. Bellalrs (Unionist!, 13,275. No change, Cricklade.—Mr Lambert (Liberal), 6937 ; Mr Galley (Unionist), 6809. No change. Mr Redmond, speaking at Tyrone, asked Roman Catholics to elect Mr McGhee, a Protestant Irishman, and thus prove that Home Rule did not mean the ascendancy of any class or creed, but that it meant Ireland for the Irish, whether Protestant or Catholic.