Bigger Liberal Lead

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 210, 14 December 1910, Page 5

Bigger Liberal Lead

': THE STATE OF THE PARTIES. GOVERNMENT MAJORITY INCREASES. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. Received 14, 12.5 a.m. London, December 13. The following is the state of the parties.— GOVERNMENT. England H2 Wales 24 Scotland 30 Redmondites 58 CBrknites 5 ff 289 CONSERVATIVES. England 203 Scotland 8 Ireland 16 Wales 2 F L '229 Members elected 518 Remaining seats 152 So far 34 Laborites have been elected. The Liberals have gained twenty-two Beats, and the Conservatives twenty-one.

THE LIBERAL MAJORITY. London, December I*2. Liberal newspapers argue that Mr. Asquith's majority is adequate, and guote Mr. Balfour's interpretation of his majority in 1900. AN AFFRAY AT CORK. London, December 12. Rival factions at Mid-Cork came into collision on Sunday night. Revolvers were fired* and windows smashed. The police charged the mob, and some on both sides were injured. NO NEED FOB ALARM. London, December 12. The Earl of Aberdeen, in a letter to a candidate, says: "After continuous residence in Ireland for years, watching affairs and meeting people of every class and creed, I am profoundly impressed concerning the absolute baselessness of alarm about the consequences of' Home Rule," THE CREATION OF PEERS. London, December 12. The Eari of Crewe, speaking at Newmarket, said that the only change which anybody proposed in regard to the Crown's privileges was suggested by the Peers themselves, namely to deprive the Crown of the power to create Peers.

IRELAND FOR THE IRISH. London, December 12. Mr. Redmond, at Mid-Tyrone, asked Catholics to elect McGhee, a Protestant Irishman, and thus prove that Home Rule did not mean the ascendancy of any class or creea. It meant Ireland for the Irish, whether Protestant or Catholic. MR. ASQUITH PUTS THE ISSUE. Received 14, 12.5 a.m. London, December 13. Mr. Asquith, at Stowmarket, declared that no procedure was more entitled to be called a referendum than the present election. A simpjer, cleaner, or clearer issue was never presented to the country. The issue was: Should the people's' representatives be supreme over.legislation, as they already were over finance and policy! What was the good of the representative system if it was superseded by constant appeals to the people on every issue of magnitude and importance T

SPEECH BY MR. BALFOUR. THE GOVERNMENT AND HOME RULE. AN OUTRAGE OF DEMOCRACY. Received 14, 12.5 a.m. London, December 13. Mr. Balfour, speaking at Dartford, said the threat that a Radical majority would carry the Parliament Bill and thereby settle the matter of a single chamber Parliament, was a boast which was not going to end the matter. 'The Unionists would not submit to such a preposterous scheme, hastily cooked, aad thrown at the heads of the two Houses. The Liberals had avoided reference to Home Rule until five hundred seats had been fought. It was an outrage of democracy that the Government only announced an immediate Home Rule Bill on Thursday. This was a plot to prevent the country pronouncing judgment upon the question.

MINISTERIAL SPEECHES. GOVERNMENT MAJORITY OF A HUNDRED. Received 14, 12.5 a.m. London ,Deeemberl 3. Mr. Churchill, at Parkstone, said party strife would not abate until the veto was abolished. The approaching coronation should be a season of concord, all parties and all creeds participating. Mr. Lloyd-George, speaking at Newton, said an effort was being made to frighten the people over Home Rule. No Bill was ever proposed giving the Irish Parliament the slightest power over religion. The Government would have a majority of a hundred, which was quite. enomrh to bury the Lords. CONTESTED ELECTIONS. London, December 12. .' ' WMiTHAMSTOW.

CRICKLADE (WILTS). Lambert (L.) 0037 Col. T. C. P. Callev (U.).. GBO9 [January, 1010: Calley (U.) 7389, Massie (L.) 6754.] A Liberal gain. ROSSENDALE (LANCASHIRE). Rt. Hon. V. L. Harcourt (L.).. 6619 Hoyle 5200 PARTY GAINS. The following party gains have been notified by cable:— Unionist Gains.—King's Lvnn, Great Grimsby, Salford (South), Warrington, Wigan, Ashton-under-Lyne, Darlington, St. xancras (West), Liverpool (Exchan?e), Birkenhead, Islington (North), St. Helens, Newton, Cardiff District, Dudley. Plymouth (2), Melton, Eskdale, Altrincham, Darwen. Liberal Gains. Camberwell (Peckham), Rochester. Manchester (Southwest), Exeter, Cheltenham, Wakefield, Sunderland, 'Southwark, Coventry, Burnley, Stepney, Radnorshire, Bedford, Cockermouth, Saffron Walden, Lowestoft, Crickdale. Labor Gains. Sunderland, Whitehaven, Woolwich, Bow and Bromley. Total Coalition gains, 21. Total Unionist gains, 21.

THE ALBERT HALL SPEECH. Speaking at the Albert Hall, London, on December 10, 1909, Mr. Asquith said: Speaking ort' behalf of the Government in March of last year, a week before my accession to the office of Prime Minister, I declared Ireland as the one undeniable failure of British statesmanship. I repeat here to-night what I said then, speaking on behalf of my colleagues, and, I believe, of my party. The solution of the problem can be found only in one way—(cries of."Home Rule" and cheers) —by a policy which, while explicitly safeguarding the supreme and indefeasible authority of the. Imperial Parliament, will set up in Ireland a system of full self-government—(loud cheers) —in regard to purely Irish affairs. There is not, and there cannot be, any questions of separation. ' There is not, and there cannot be, any question of rival or competing supremacies. But, subject to those conditions, that is the Liberal policy. For reasons which I believe to be adequate, the present Parliament was disabled in advance from proposing such solution. But in the new House of Commons the hands of the biberal Government and the Libt-nJ majority will be in this matter entirely free.