THE BERMONDSEY BYELECTION.
UNIONIST CANDIDATE RETURNED. Received October 29, 10.10 a.m. LONDON, October 29.
The by-election at Bermndsey, owning to the death of Mr G. Copar (Liberal) resulted: 1 —
J, Humphreys, Unionist and Tariff Keformer 4,278, L. H. Hughes, Liberal 3,291 Doctor Salter, Socialist 1,435 The Opposition papers are jubilant, believing that Bermondsey ia the index constitunecy.always awing ing in sympathy with National foaling.
The "Chronicle" declares that the reßU.lt illustrates the failure of the British representatives system, and the need for electoral reform.
Mr? Chap and Miss Mielans, members of the Women's Freedum League, entered two pdliner boths and emptied bottlas" of corrosive fluid into the ballot boxes, but only a few papers were spoilt, The acid splashed on to the face of Thorley, the presiding officer. The hospital authorities state that probably ho will lose an eye. The League admit the deliberate plot to invalidate the chction, but deny thit vitrjl was used.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WAG19091030.2.31
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9636, 30 October 1909, Page 5
Word count
Tapeke kupu
155THE BERMONDSEY BYELECTION. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9636, 30 October 1909, Page 5
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Wairarapa Age. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in