BRITISH POLITICS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXVIII, Issue 7946, 23 January 1906, Page 5

BRITISH POLITICS.

THE ELECTIONS. LONDON, January 21. The following members of the last Parlilament have been re-elected; Carnarvon— Mr Lloyd George, Liberal, President of the Board of Trade. Sowerley, Yorkshire—Mr Higham. Norfolk South—Mr A. W. Soames, Liberal. Spen .Valley, Yorkshire—Mr T. P. Whittaker, Liberal. Rossondale, Lancashire—Mr L. V. Harcourt, Liberal. Anglesoy—Mr J. Ellis Griffith, Lioerai. Rugby—Mr Corrie Grant, Lberal. Durham Nurth-vve?t—Mr L. Atherley .Tones, Q. 0., Liberal. Epoing—Col. A. R. M. Lockwood, Conservative. Prestwict—Mr F. Cawiey, Liberal. Pudsey—Mr G. Wbiteley, Liberal. Bewdley—Mr A. Baldwin, Conser vative. St. Augustine's, Kent—Mr A. Akers-Douglas, Conservative, Home Secretary in the Balfour Ministry. Mid-Derbyshire—Mr J. A. Jacoby, Liberal. North. Tarn worth—Mr P. A. Muntz, Conservative. Widues— Col. W. Hall-Walker, Conservative". ' Med way—Lieut-Col. C. E. Warde, Conservative. The following members have been elected unoDposed:— South Cork—Mr E. Barry, Nationalist Ossory-—Mr W. P. Delany, Nationalist. South Kilkenny Mr James O'Mara, Nationalist. Mid-Tippearary— Mr Kendal O'Brien, Nationalist. South Mayo—Mr John O'Donnell, Nationalist. West Donegal—Mr Law. (The first five of the above six Irish members were in the last Parliament) Mr Idns has been eleced for Flint Burghs, represented in the last Parliament by Mr J. H. Lewis, Liberal. "T.P." ON THE SITUATION. DECLARES A SECRET TREATY EXISTS BETWEEN BANNERMAN AND REDMOND. OBSERVER INANITIES. LONDON, January 21. la a speeoh at Heywood, Mr T. P. O'Connor, member for the Sootland Division of Liverpool, stated that a secret treaty existed between Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman and Mr Redmond to enable Ireland to attend to its own roads, build its own harbours, control its education, and restore 4000 evicted tenants within two years. Irish aspirations would thus be complied with, and Irish wrongs redressed. The Observer estimates ibat 473.433 votes in Great Britain were cast for Chamberlainism, 1,008,079 for Mr Balfour, and 2,987,705 for Freetrade, including, 409,025 for Labour, as against- ,77,286 Labour votes oust in 1900. . CONGRATULATIONS FROM RUSSIA. » ST. PETERSBURG, Jan. 21. The Congress of Constitutional Democrats in St. Petersburg has telegraphed to Sir Henry CampbellBannerman and Mr John Burns oon gratulaHng them on the result of the British elections. THE STATE OF THE PARTIES. Received January 22, 10.5 p.m. LONDON, January 22. '" Following is the state of the parties:—Liberal, 253: Labour, 41; Nationalists, 77; Unionists, 114. THE FISCAL ARK SIMILE. MR AUSTEN CHAMBERLAIN GOES ONE BETSER. DISCOVERS MT. ARARAT IN BIRMINGHAM. Received January 22, 9.46 p.m. LONDON, January 22. Mr Austen Chamberlain, who was Chancellor of the Exchequer in the Balfour Government, speaking at Worcester, said the tariff reformers had found Mount Ararat, at Birmingham, and would rest until the flood had "subsided" the people of the country with Unionist ideas. LIBERAL- NEWS. Received January 22, 11.7 p.m. LONDON, January 22. The Hon. H. H. Asquitb, Chancellor of the Exobequer, speaking at Langbank, Renfrewshire, said that the Government intended to give the Transvaal and the Orange River Colony the earliest possible manage maut of their internal affairs. "If," said the speaker, "we leavethe colonies absolute fiscal freedom, retaining the same freedom ourselves, there will be no risk of any serious friction either between the Motherland or the colonies, or between one dependency and another." MR JOSEPH CHAMERLAIN. APPEALS FOR A GOOD REARGUARD ACTION. Received January 22, 11.7 p.m. LONDON, January 22. Mr J. Chamberlain, in bis speech at Wellington .(Staffordshire), appealed to the unpolled constituencies to flght a good rear-guard aotion, to collect the scattered forces in order to prevent the defeat becoming a rouii.

CABLE NEWS.

By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. INTENTION OP IHE LABOUR PARTY. THEIR MOTTO. PRESERVATION OF THE EMPIRE. Received January 22, 11.7 p.m. ' LONDON, January 22. Mr MacDouald, Secretary of the Labour Representation Committee, interviewed, said the Labour Party's great and immediate object was to get an understanding with the Labour Democratic parties in the oolonies in order to protect the Empire against the British "Jingo" classes. "Our motto," said Mr MauDonald, "will he in the interests of oeace and democratic justice all round."