BRITISH POLITICS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXVIII, Issue 7951, 29 January 1906, Page 5

BRITISH POLITICS.

THE EJECTIONS. ADDITIONAL RETURNS; LONDON, January $& Tho I'nilowing seat has been gairieW by a Unionist:— Whi'tty— Mr 0. BVcke'tfy defeat--ing Mr Noel .burton. Heats havo bean gained at the following vinous by Liberals, displacing Uuinuists or Conservatives: Chesterton (Cambridgeshire)—Mr E. S. Montague North west Staffordshire Mr Alfrel Billson. EastGriinstead—MrO. H. Coibett. Hitobin—Mr J. Bertram. Richmond (Yorkshire)— Mr P. Dyko-Aciand. Dumbartonshire—Mr White. North'Worcestershire —Mr J. W. Wilson. Newaru Division oS Nottinghamshire—Mr Starkey. Liberals have been elected as under:— Mid Northamptonshire—Mr Mansfield. St. Ives—Mr 0. Cory. Mid Norfolk—Lord Wodehouse. The following members of the ladt Parliament have beeu re-elected:— Westbury (Witts)—Mr J. M. F. Puller, Liberal. Argyleshire—Mr J. S. Ainswor th Liberal. Barnstaple—Mr E. J. Loares, .Liberal. Aylesbury—Hon. L. W. Rothschild, Unionist. South Tyrone—Mr T. W. Kussell, Independent. Wellington (Somerset)— Sir A. P. Acland-Hood, Conservative. Petersfleld-Mr "V. G. Nicholson, Conservative. Received January 28, 4.31 p.m. LONDON, January 27. Additional results are:— Antrim North—Mr Qlendining, Unionist. Skipton—Mr Clough, Liberal. The following have been re elected: Kerry East—Mr John Murphy. Newmarket—Mr Rose. Horsham—Lord Tumour. Ashburton—Mr Eve. Fife East—Rinht Hon/ H. H. Asquith. Haddington—Mr R. B. Haldane. Further Liberal gains are:*— Oockermouth—Sir Wilfrid Laweon. Leek—Mr Robert Fearce. Somerset, Eastern—Mr Thompson. DEATH OF A SUCCESSFUL CANDIDATE. LONDON, January 25. Mr Higgins, Nationalist candidate for Galway North, died from heart failure. Received January 28, .4.31 p.m. LONDON, January 27. Mr Higgins, who died from heart failure, was returned at the head of the poll. MISUSE OP TRADE UNION FUNDS. LONDON, January 26. A thousand female operatives in the Blackburn district have withdrawn from their trade union as a protest against the employment of the anion's funds for political purposes. Three thousand operatives at Burnley attended, and recommended the Weavers' Association to withdraw from the Labour Represents tion Committee after the poll had closed. v A SOLID LIBERAL COUNTRY. LONDON, January 26. No Unionist candidate has been elected.for Wiles. A FURTHER LIBERAL GAIN. Reoeived January 28, 4.31 p.m. LONDON, January 27. Mr T. Russell, the .member for TyroneJEast, has declared himself to be a Liberal, as he has done with the mists of dead Toryism and worse landlordism. STRENGTH OF PARTIES. Reoeived January 28, 4.31 p.m. LONDON, January 27. The strength of the parties at present is:—Liberals, 352; Labour, 50; Nationalists, 93; Unionists, 146. MR LONG RETURNED. Received January 29, 1.8 a.m. LONDON, January 28. The Unionists gain the South Division of Dublin—Mr W. 11. Long, 5,269 votes; Mr Hazleton, Nationalist. 3,926 votes. Liberal gains are Stirlingshire, Mr Someaton; Tyneside Division of Northumberland, Mr Robertson; Ripoh, Mr Lynch; Thornbury, Mr Rendall, reelected; Howdenshire, Mr Broadley, Unionist; Osgold Cross, Mr Pickett, Liberal (re-elected); Crewe, Mr Tomkinson; Dorset East, Mr Lyell; Epsom, Mr Keswick; High Peak, Mr Hartington; North Ayrshire, Mr Cochrane; Ross and Cromarty, Mr Weir; Evisb'am, Colonel Long; Buokruse, Mr Luke White; Inverness, Mr Dewar. THE CHANNEL TUNNEL. GOVERNMENT NOT IN FAVOUR OF PROPOSAL. Reoeived January 28, 4.19 p.m. LONDON, January 27. In response to the suggestion that tho men discharged from the Chatham dockyard and the unemployed generally should be employed in the construction of the - Channel tunnel as a national undertaking the Admiralty state that the Government is not prepared to support the proposal.

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