POLITICAL NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 1568, 28 November 1885, Page 2

POLITICAL NEWS.

THE EIiEOTIpif S. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPp— CQPYRiaTHTj (special to united press association./ •y LoKDoSf, ■' Nbv. 25. Sir Charles W. Dilke has been returned for Chelsea by a majority of 176. There is an enormous increase m the Tory vote at Birmingham. Mr Hennicker Heaton, of Sydney, who contested the Canter, bury elections m the Tory interest, has been returned by a majority of 979. The Tories still continue to gain advantage. ' ! i» Nov. 26. So far as the elections have a» yet gone, 71 have been returned ia. ; the fory interest;. Liberals, 50; Radicals, 10; Independents, 2; Pamellites, 5. In London Tories ;were chiefly returned. Edinburgh, Derby, Portsmouth, York, and Ip*^ wich returned all Liberals. Brighton, Devonport, Southampton, and Plymouth all returned Tories. iJverpdol returned eight Tories and one Parnellite. Sheffield and Leeds ! reiurned.three 'fcorfes. ; J*nstol anif Salfbrci returned t wo'Torie^ "Amongf ' ; those elected are Mr W: Labddchere for Northampton, MrC. Bradlaugh for Northampton, Mr W. T. Marriott for BrigliVohV Mr A/ J v . v MundellaforSheffield^Sir W; W Hir^ court for Derby, Sir Michael Hicks*. Beach for Gloucestershire, Hon. ft. .. Bqurke for KirigVLyrin^ Mr G. I& Stuart- Wortley for Sheffield, Mr E. Ashmead Bartlett for Eyei'Hon; G. J-. Goachen for' Chatham, Messrs Baden, Powell, and Ho ward "Vincent. Ampng those defeated are Mr Childers, for P6ntefra^t ; Mr G; J. S. Lefevre, for Reading ; Lord A. Russell, for Tavistock ; and Mr J. liolms, for Hackney. ...... Commenting on. |he { elections,. the Times states' that the recent attitiio'e' taken up by Mr, CJ^mberlainAas destroyed tjie chance ofthe&iberSls. Mr J. Kynastoon Gross, of Bolton, has been: rejected. "*: v

(a-EUTER'S TELBOBAitfI.f J London, .Nov. 26.

. Up to the present time eighty-six Liberals and eighty-eight Conserve- ; iives have.; been . elected. Lord Randolph Churchill has been returned for Paddingtor by a large majority. Sir William Hicks-Beach, Sir Assheton Cross, and Sir William H arcourt have secured seats ; while Mr Childers, Mr Shaw Lefevre, and Sir Henry Drummpnd Wolff have been defeated. The have carried the whole of the Birmingham constituencies as well as the Portsmouth seat, while Conservative candidates -have been returned for Liverpool, Blackburn, Bury St. Edm>ntfs| prefer, Coven* try, Cheltenham;~Croyd|n, Colchester, Cambridge, Launcebtoh, Plymouth, Tauntoni Warririgfoh, Rochester, Staley bridge, Durham,: Brighton, Ponteftact, Reading, Salford, Stockport, . "Hackney i Christchurch. .

For the City or London Elector, ate (one member), the Right Hod. John G. Hubbard and Alderman Fowler ieaclv polled the same num. ber of votes, namely, 91. ' Conservative candidates have beeii generally successful m London Suburban Electorates, and Provinces. The Liberals have been elected for York, Salisbury, Boston,, and Edinburgh, while Conservatives have been successful at Bolton, Winchester, Norwich, Muhcastor, and Hull. At Leeds, out of five seafts returns show three Conservatives, while for Sheffield the following (Ive members have been/ elected :— Messrs Coferidge, Munella, Howard Vincent, Ashinead Bartlett, and Stewart Worthy. Mr Gladstone has been elected for Midlothian, and Sir Lyon Playfair for. Edinburgh: add St. Andrew's Universities.