THE FEDERAL ELECTIONS.

Taranaki Daily News, 27 December 1919, Page 4

THE FEDERAL ELECTIONS.

returns still incomplete. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyrleht. Received December 25, 11.15 a.m. Sydney, Dee. 25. The election returns still leave the final decision in several seats dependent upon small uncounted votes, and the preferential allocation of the Senate figures is incomplete, (but the position Is little clanged. The referendum votes are now in the

9 vicinity of a million. New South Wales, South Australia, and Tasmania are r against, and Victoria, Queensland and J Westralia are in favor of both proposals, I but the total vote shows a fairly solid > majority against, with an increasing teni dency in that direction.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable ) Assn. ■ VICTORY OF THE NATIONALISTS. ! Received December 25, 11.15 a.m. Melbourne, Dec. 25. i Mr- W. M. _ Huglhes, in returning ' 'hanks at Bendigo on the formal declari ation of his election, said that the NaI tionalist victory meant defeat for dis- ■ loyalty, "direct action," Bolshevism, the ■ "go slow" policy, and all that was i mean, paltry and selfish in our midst, , but not the defeat of the Labor cause, i which was as sacred as ever to those who had fought for it. He claimed that the Nationalists have a clear majority of their own in the new Parliament, and he declared that the Nationalist clean sweep of the Senate was too appalling to mention.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.