CHRISTCHURCH NORTH SEAT

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 48, 18 August 1911, Page 4

CHRISTCHURCH NORTH SEAT

SUBSTANTIAL WIN FOR MR. ISITT.

By Telegraph—Press Association. Cliristcliurch, Last Night. The by-election for Christchurch North took place to-day in fine weather. The polling was fairly heavy, <io2O out of 10,100 on the roll recording their votes, as compared with 7894 (T. E. Taylor 4339, C. M. Gray 2700, R. J. Ecroyd 856) at last election. The corrected final result is:—

J. D. Hall (Independent Opposition) 3100 L. if. Isitt (Independent Liberal) 3814 Majority for Isitt 708 The results were got in very promptly, the last coming to hand shortly after eight o'clock.

CANDIDATES' SPEECHES.

Christchurch, Last Night. Mr. J. D. Hull, in a speech, stated that the manner in which those who helped him had done their work led him to believe the figures would be altered in two months' time, when, as far as he was concerned, he would give them am opportunity of deciding whether or not that would be the case.

The Rev. L. M. Isitt said he regarded the victory as a tribute to their dead leader. It was no secret that the Conservative forces had been concentrated upon the struggle, and the Conservatives took it that if they won the election, it would be an evidence of the turn ot the tide of public opinion. They had failed, nnd he honestly believed that the day had passed for legislation of the spirit and character the Conservatives believed was for the good of the Dominion.