BRITISH ELECTIONS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10133, 6 December 1910, Page 5

BRITISH ELECTIONS.

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RIOTOUS OOiNGS AT LINCOLN. WINSTON CHURCHILL REFUSED A HEARING. FREE FIGHTS AMONG THE CROWD. (Received December 5, 10 a.m.) LONDON, December 4. The appearance of Mr Winston Churchill (Home -Secretary) at Lincoln was the signal for pandemonium among the croud. Mr Churchill was twice refused a hearing. There were several ugly rushes and free fights before ho departed. .the Unionist candidate, Sir Robert Filme'r, was struck in the face. He returned the blow. The representation of the city remains unchanged. (At the election in January, Mr C. H. Roberts, Liberal, was elected, defeating Sir Robert Filmer by 2166 votes. < "GIVE ENGLAND A LEAD." (Received December 5," 10.10 a.m.) LONDON, December 4. Lord Rosebery addressed an enthusiastic audience numbering four j thousand at Edinburgh. His Lordship said the parties seemed changed. ' The ■platforms of the Unionists were wise and moderate, while the Liberals were resorting to \ Single Chamber Government. The Conservatives had come round to his, views on the hereditary question. A -; man who never changed his opinions was an ass. The Lords' question, added the speaker, might have been settlecLbut for the Government maintaining its hereditary irresponsible cliaracter to suit themselves. What jot or tittle of reform had the House of Lords received from the Libeials? It was mere cant to denounce what the Gov- ' eminent alone'was keeping in existence. Whatever the result of this election, said Lord Rosebery, it could not settle the constitutional questions that had been raised. THE REFERENDUM. (Received December 5, 8.50 a.m.) LONDON, December 4. Mr Austen Chamberlain, speaking ; at Newcastle, said that the Union- 1 ists proposed that, in matters : -of ; pure finance, the Commons should have, besides the last, the onlyword. Lord Loreburn, in a letter, contends that the referendum implies that the direct question shall be put to the electorates over the- head of the Representatives. It will be impo3 sible to secure assent to the general principle underlying any such question while electors differ altogether -.on'details.- -. - . ;-" A GERMAN OPINION. (Received" Last Night] '9:20 o'clock.) BERLlN,'Deeember 4. The newspaper Frankfurter Zeitung, one of the most pronounced Liberal papers in Germany, regards the referendum as a stage in the I constitutional evolution where the I representative system has reached its highest- development* LIBERALS AND~TiE IRISH EMBRACE. . ; (Receive* Last o'cldck;V _____. ■ ' ■. V-'yiytS** ■ VIENNA, December, 4. The newspaper Niue Frie Presse is very doubtful whether' the Liberals will be strong enough to escape the Irish embrace, and win the independent majority that they scarcely possessed before.

A NON-CONFORMIST APPEAL. (Received Last Night, L .30 o'clock.) LONDON, December 5. Lord Tennyson, who was prevented by illness from actively participating in the elections, sent a message earnestly begging the Non-conformists in the Tsle of \,:ght not to desert their fellow Nonconformists in Ireland", but to vote against Home Rule, wliich_ meant the breaking -up of the Constitution and the dismemberment of the Empire.

THE .SCHEME OF REFORM

(Received Last Night, 10.30 o'clock.) LONDON, December 5. Sir Echvard Grey, speaking at Alnywack, said that Home Rule was part of a great scheme, which included reform of the Commons, redistribution of seats, one-man-one-vote and local power for all parts of the United Kingdom. A "MAKESHIFT" PROGRAMME. (Received Last Night, 10.30 o'clock.) LONDON, December 5. The Hon. D. Lloyd-George, in a letter to the candidates, describes the Unionist.programme as a "makeshift." He adds that the Lords proposing it have advertised their surrender. Mr William Redmond received an ovation from his Cork supporters. He spoke from a brake, with the American Stars and Stripes on his right.

REVIEWING THE RESULTS.

WHAT THE PAPERS SAY. (Received Last Night, 11.15 o'clock.) LONDON, December 5. Unionist newspapers consider the polling encouraging. The Standard argues that the Ministry is already condemned to impotence. The Daily Chronicle declares that a crushing blow has been dealt to the hope's-of the pro-Peer food-taxing party. London has given a magnificent lead, to' 'the v. The of the. Tariffites at Mr Balfour's referendum 'trick, 'nncLthn announcement that-the .Tariff question would not be an issue of the election is shown bv the fall in the Tory vote in Birmingham in the

aggregate from 20,082 to 15,981, and an increase in the vote of the Liberals, which nearly captured West Bromwich. The decrease in the Tory vote in London is 15,596. The poll throughout the country has been 318,740 for the Liberals, against 306,489 for the Peers-Toryites. The majority at Gloucester was four, and at West Bromwich five. The cause of Froetrade, and a free House of Commons is, according to the Chronicle, already safe. The Daily News states that any hope of the Peers' party that they would be. victorious lias been shattered. The Duke of Norfoik had remarked on Saturday that it was not a question of Peers versus People, but Peers and People against the Commons. The Daily News says:—"This is a suggestion that it is not a question of Wolf versus Red Riding Hood, but Wolf and Red Riding Hood against the Watchdog. The Duke's remark is an admission that the wolf is trying to kill the watchdog. Red Riding Hood realises that we can safely leave it to her which she will side'with."