BRITISH POLITICS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8036, 25 January 1906, Page 3

BRITISH POLITICS.

THE UNIONIST LEADER. Lo.vddx, January 2:{. The electorate of lioinfoi'il !m> doubled since I'JIKI. Mr Akers-Douglas, laic Homr Sivrotary, nil! be leader of tlic Unionist I'.irty in Parliament uutil Mr H:>lt .ur Las been elected. Elected:—Kingston, Cave, lie-elected : —Antrim Mid., O N ill; Le«e<~ Aubrey Fletcher; Torquay, Layland; B.irratl, Lamlswortli ;< Mevscy, Thompson; Ormskirk, Arthur Stanley: Frome, Barlow; Norfolk East, I'rice j Ludlow, Hunt. Worcestershire East, Austen Chamberlain, 10,119; Morgan (Literal); 5763.

Liberal gains Ross Division of Hereford, Gardner: Henley, Morrell ; Bodmin, Roberts; Essex South-ystem, Rowland Whitehead. LATER BETURNS. LIBERAL MAJORITY LV. CREASING. Received 25, 10 p.m. London, January 21. j lie-elected— Pembroke, Phillips. Monmouth North, MeKcnua. Rushcliffe, p'llis. Lanark (Mid), Caldwell. Loughborough, Levy. Liberal ■gainst—" Harwich, A. Levy Lever. Hevnood, Holden. Tottenham, Alder. Labor gain Newton-Seddon. Unionist gain— Lanark (North-'Western) W. Xlionia >ll. A COMMONER B IDLY MA I*l, El). MR HALDANE AND THE CHINESE QUESTION.

Received 21. 10 p.m. London, January 21. Cornish miners badly nnulod Thorue, a Socialist Commoner for Westhain South, for attempting to support a Socialist candidate. Mr Haldane, speaking at Drew, Haddingtonshire, said lie never was an extreme opponent to Chinese labour. " If," lie said, " the Transvaal "idled the Chinese, we will wash our hands of the affair." A REMARKABLE LETTER, MICHAEL DAVITT -VXD THE IIUSH BISHOPS. Received 21, 11.35 p.m. London, January 21. Michael Ilavitt. in a remarkable letter in the "Freeman's Journal," rejoices at the approaching secularization in the English Catholic schools, and declares that the asinine stupidity of the Irish Bishops for instigating Mr Redmond to assist Mr Balfour to giactthe Education Act of I'JO2, was tje chief cause of the triumphant Hadiral majority, which was pledged to secularise the schools, but was not pledged to Home Rule. STATE OF THE PARTIES. Received 25, 111 p.m. London*, January 21. The state o". parties now is : liiberals 285 Labor U Nationalists ... 77 L T nionists 123