BRITISH ELECTIONS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 9693, 18 January 1910, Page 5

BRITISH ELECTIONS.

RESULT OF THE POLLS.

VOTING IN THE BOROUGHS. United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph Copyright Received January 17, 8.45 a.m. LONDON, January 16. The following additional results have been received: —■ DEVONPORT—TWO. Sir John Jackson, Unionist 5,658 Mr C. Kinlock Cook, Unionist 5,286 ir J. W. Benn, Liberal 5,146 Mr Lithgow, Unionist 5,140 BATH—TWO. Lord Thynne. Unionist 3,961 Sir C. Hunter. Unionist 3,889 Mr D. McLean, Liberal 3,771 Mr G. P. Gooch, Liberal 3,757 ROCHESTER. Mr Ridley, Unionist 2,675 Mr E. H. Lamb, Liberal 2,543 SALISBURY—CITY Mr Locker Lampson, Unionist 1.803 Sir E. P. Tennant, Liberal 1,485 BURNLEY. Mr Gerald Arbuthnot, Unionist 5.776 Mr Fred. Maddison, Labour 5,681 Mr H. M. Hyndhman, Socialist 4,948 MANCHESTER-SOUTH-WEST. Mr Colifax, Unionist 3,111 Mr Neddham, Liberal 3,004 Mr Maclachlan, Labour 1,218 STALYBRIDGE. Mr Wood, Unionist 4,573 Mr Bright, Labour 3,679 STOKE-UPON-TRfiNi. i Mr John Ward, Labour 7,788 Mr Kyd, Unionist 6,597 IPSWICH. Sir D. Goddard, Liberal 6,120 Rev. S. Home, Liberal 5,958 Mr Churchman, Unionist 5,690 Mr Burton, Unionist 5,645 DUDLEY. Mr A. G. Hooper, Liberal 8,342 Mr Boscowan, Unionist 8,155 i

UNIONIST DEMONSTRATION

Received January 17, 8.45 a.m. LONDON, January 16. Local Unionists strongly resented Mr Lloyd-George speaking at Grimsby during the polling. A hostile crowd surrounded the hall, in which the meeting was held, "booed" the speaker and cried "Traitor" and "Pro-Boer." The police assisted Mr LloydGeorge to escape along the railway line to the first station, whence hs motored to Louth, in Lincolnshire. During the meeting at Louth in the evening same suffragettes, who had secreted themselves between the ceiling and the roof, compelled Mr Lloyd-George to cease speaking while they were ejected. Mr Lloyd Geroge, Chancellor of the Exchequer, speaking at Louth, declared that the first results or the elections were no indications of the form Parliament would ultimately take. The winning of an election does not mean holding every seat. Mr A. J. Balfour, Opposition Leader, in a speech at Bradford, said it was perfectly plain that there were two schools of thought in the Cabinet— one which looked forward with deep alarm to the growth of a rival naval power, while the other school talked of "frittering away public money" on the navy. "I don't know which school would win it the Budget provided ample funds," added the speaker, "but when we are faced with a deficit, as I believe is certain, the school which reeards naval expenditure as frittering will finally dominate the policy of the Cabinet." Mr John Foster Fraser and Mr Bagley, Unionist, and working man candidates for Leicester, have issued writs against Mr Ramsay Macdonaid, charging him with slanderously alleging that they had bribed the electors with drink. Received January r l7, 9.30 p.m. LONDON, January 1.7. Mr Winston Churchill, speaking at Dundee, said that the whole of the tariff reform movement was promoted by Ihe privileged classes to secure what they now possessed and carry warfare against the rights and interests o± the common people. Mr Lloyd-George, speaking at Louth, greeted the Suffragettes with the remark: "I see rats on the roof; let them squeal."

MR BaLFOUK AT BRADFORD,

Received January 17, 10.22 p.m. LONDON, January 17. Mr J. A. Balfour, speaking at Bradford, said the Germans were not offended at any country aiming for emergencies, but they were insulted by the amazing and offensive pictures of wretched artisans with all their education and technical knowledge compelled to eat black bread, horseflesh, and every kind of diet civilised man would regret with disgust. Referring to the policy of preference, Mr Balfour remarked that the Government had turned a deaf ear to the pleadings of the Dominions. He trusted that we would not for long turn an unheeding ear to the whole method ofjframing tariffs adopted by rivals such as would compel the colonies, unless we alter our policy, to come to some arrangement with those with whom the are doing business. "Put ourself in the position of a great colony which for years has given the Motherland preference," said Mr Balfour* "and is threatened by a great commercial neighbour's penal tariff unless it throws in its commercial lot

with some state outside the Empire, i while the Motherland refuses to come to any arrangement." He added: "That cannot last, and if it cannot in heaven's name put an end to it at once, because the evil is growing.' - Mr Balfour emphasised that foreign tariffs were sn framed as to divert British industry from skilled employments, giving the Lest wages in ihs production of semi-manufactured raw material for foreigners who finished the products. He instanced the most skilful and highly paid remunerative kinds of industry at Bradford had been diverted to a foreign country. Why should we continue patitnt aid tolerant, trusting to the fre riom cf rivals to manage our trade," he asked. What was wanted was a dip lomatic weapon enabling tha Motherland and Dominions to meet other nations on equal, terms. Both Liberals and Unionists express elation at Saturday's pollings.

SCENES IN THE LONDON STREETS.

CROWDS AWAITING RESULTS

Received January 17, 8.45 a.m. LONDON, January 16. Crowds numbering between twenty and thirty thousand gathered outside the Fleet Street newspaper offices in Trafalgar Square, and in Aldwich, to watch the election results shown by a lantern on screens. The periods of waiting were enlivened by politica' songs ' upon gramaphones. Received January 7, 8.45 a.m. CAPETOWN, January 16. The South African papars were published on Sunday owing tr» the intense interest felt in the British elections.