FEDERAL ELECTIONS.

Taranaki Daily News, 7 May 1917, Page 4

FEDERAL ELECTIONS.

NATIONALIST VICTORY IN HOUSBf UPPER HOUSE INCOMPLETE. Australian-N.Z. Cable Association.' Received May 6, 6.6 p.m. Sydney, May S. Tho weather was fine for tho Federal elections, and tho voting generally waaj Bolid. | The figures in no instanoe ore complete/ but when counting ceased at midnight they wore' sufficiently advanced, as fa? as the House,of Representatives is com cerned, to place a big Nationalist victor/ beyond all doubt. As for the Senate, some days will have to elapae before the count will show; anything like finality, but the Nationalist bunches in all States are ledaing, with such margins as to make the National* ist hopes of winning the required ma* jority in the Upper House most promise ing.

Postal and soldiers' votes have still t<j be taken into account, and it will protn ably be something like a fortnight fore tho soldiers' votes are availftbl*, J Received May 6, 6.5 p.m. *<||< Sydney, May 6. * The incompleteness of the election te* turns, and the capability of very con* siderable alteration, makes it impossible to state the position with any exactness ' On the present figures a rough approxN mation of probables for the House of Re< presentatives is:— Nationalists .<.TwnKpßa 47 Political Labor League 22 Doubtful .V«.Jpwt(S) 6 Excepting Hon. W. Webster, Po«frt master-General, who has considerable ieM way to make up, all the Ministers art apparently safe. Right Hon. W. it Hughes' faitli in abandoning bis old love, West Sydney, for Bcndigo, wa# wtll placed, as he scored a thumping majority, while Mr. Cook (leader of the had a runaway victory at Farramattai J. H. Catts romped in at tVagga WAgga< A number of seats are likely to cbaqgs hands. The Political Labor League look* like capturing two or threS in New! ' South Wales, while the Hon. P. G. Tudor) admits that three Labor Beat* in Victo* ria appear to have gone to the, National* ists. >

As regards the Senate, an outstanding feature is the probability of the Nationalists capturing three Victorian eeatlj For a third seat in New South Wales* previously held by Labor, a Nationalist holds a good lead. However, the {tenat* figures at present are a mere dabble,} as compared with the final figures, Received May 7,1.30 p.m. ■ Melbourne, Mi 18. Mr. Tudor easily defeated hjta j Jom ent at Yarra.