THE BRITISH ELECTIONS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10134, 7 December 1910, Page 5

THE BRITISH ELECTIONS.

LATEST RETURNS.

VERY CLOSE POLLING.

(Per United Press Association— Copyright.) Received December 7, 2 a.m. LONDON, December 6. Returns to hand at midnight show that th 3 Government have secured 117 seats, and the Unionists 115. For West St. Pancras, Sir E. Cassell (Unionist) secured 3384 votas, defeating Sir W. J. Collins (Liberal), who scored 3376.

MORE RETURNS. (Received Last Night, 5.5 o'clock.) The following arc five more of the completed returns: — North Islington. G. A. Touch (U.) . s^B *D. S. Waterloo (L.) 0022 Birkenhead. A. Bigland (U.) »304 *h. Vivian (L.) '429 Liverpool Exchange. Leslie Scott, K.C. (U.) 2J30 *Max Muspratt (L.) 2187 Wakefield. * Marshall (L.) 2837 *E. A. Brotherton (U.) 2761 Cheltenham. R. Mathias (L.) *Lord Duncannon (U.) 3' 63

MR WINSTON CHURCHILL'S OPINION. deceived Last Night, 9 o'clock. LONDON, December 6. Mr Winston Churchill, speaking at tiouthwark, described the present election as a referendum on the one question of the Parliament Bill. London held the key of the situation, and would give an answer .favourable to the people s cause. COLLISIONS IN-CORK. FIFTY PERSONS INJURED. Received Last Night, 9 o'clock. LONDON, December 6. A serious collision occurred between the Bedmonditesand O'Brieniteg at Cork. Fifty were injured, including twenty-five from scalp wcunds.

LATEST DETAILED RESULTS. Receive dTliis Morning, 12.20 o'clock LONDON, December 6. Following are further results of the elections. jJewsbury. *kight Hon. W. Kuncimaii (L.) 7061 Mr Simpson (U.) 40.W Walton. *F. E. Smith (U.) 63 f 3 Mr Permewan (Ij.) 503J) Leicester (2 members). *E. C. Williams (L.) 13,238 *J. 11. Macdonald Cuab.) 12,998 Mr Wiltshire (U.) Liverpool (Scotland Division.) *T. IJ.1 J . O'Connor (Nat.) " 2458 Mr Ockleton (U.) 689 * j.vepresoiits Member of last Pailiament.

THE LATEST SUM «'V"Y. LIBERALS LEADING BY TWO. (Received Last LONDON, December 6. The results of the elections, so far as at present known, are as follow : LIBERALS. England 81 Scotland 6 Wales 11 Ireland (Redmondites; 16 Ireland 16 Total 117 UNIONISTS. England .107" Scotland 2, Ireland 6 Total 115 MR KEIR HARDIF/S ADDRESS. (Received Last Night, 10 o'clock.) Mr Keir Hardic, in an election ad- ] dress, advocates Home Rule for Irej land and Wales. He describes Im- ! perialism as a huge imposition, and 'adds: "If all combine and vote La{hour, the day will come when neither landlord nor capitalist will be left to grind the faces of the poor; when, | indeed, there will be no poor among I us. People in these and other land? | will dwell together ih unity and peace." j FLOODS AITECTiNG ELECI TIONS.

(Received Lust Night, 10 o'clo:lc.) LONDON, Decemoer 0. j Owing to the floods, many \oters in Nottingham and Worcester were conveyed to the polls in carts and boats.- A hundred horses md eattlo I>were drowned at ADDRESSES~BY~LEA !>KKS. Received This Morning, 1.45 o'clock LONDON,' Dej•ji.ilwr 6. j -The Right Hon. Wiltir Lon k . speaking at Southampton, sf'd the I Unionists were resolevj, besides ieI forming and bringing the House of j Lords into closoer touch with the people, to introduce the referendum principle with such inserts and extension as would pen-vn,ic-nt'y secure the people's ; na'ionable r'ght to control the legisl „ 4 ion wb«ro!>y they were governed. The Hon. 'A. LyM '.ton, i,» ' Warwick,'declared il"il it u,a« impossil.'e to grant an lei't to Ireland, .\hhh, wliile eoNv.-ibnt-ing seven n'iU'.ons to Imperial reyenu o, drewnoi-.;1,y ten millions. Conll ! she, he asked, with Homa Rule, -pc- | feet herself against Britain's goods?

NEWSPAPER OPINIONS. deceived Last Night, 9 o'clock. LONDON, December 6. The limes says that the election i 3 largely a replica of the January voting. Only the more wideawake were in the least prepared [or aware of the serious difference in the situation. The majority, in bewilderment or perplexity, had doubtless taken refuge by voting as in January. An analysis of the figures revealsj the beginnings of a change, but the Government's worthy tactics and shifty experiences have effectually precluded a new and considered judgment of the situation. The Daily News states that yesterday's pollings are an excellent defence of Liberalism, and every day how gives more and better, opportunities for attack. The Daily Chronicle declares that the lories and. Peers are already beaten. SPEECH BY MR ASQUITH. Received Last Night, 10 o'clock. LONDON, December 6. The Right Hon. H. 11, Asquith, speaking at Accrington, describing the Lords' obstruction after the election of 3906 as the greatest electoral revolution in Great Britain and asked whether the unexampled majority of Liberals were sent to the Commons to kick their heels and spend weeks and months in elaborating legislation in order to have their,measures murdered and mutilated, Their four years' ? ower was not barren. The greatest [achievement of all, which he would rather have inscribed as the Government's record than anything else, waa a free/full, and responsible Government in South Africa. Had it gone to the Lords, South Africa would never have got this priceless boon. Let them not be deluded by fancy schemes launched at the fiftieth minute of the eleventh hour.

MINISTERIAL APPEALS. Received Last Night, 11 o'clock, LONDON, December 6. Hon. H. H. Asquith, |n a telegram to Messrs Hennerde and Barben, the Liberal candidates for Portsmouth, states that the party-stands for an unassailable navy; as a security against foreign attacks, and for a strong Commons at Home as a bulwark against [the Lords aggression He appealed to JJthe electors to inflict] a final on the Tariff party and the panic-monger. Hon, D. Lloyd George has telegraphed that all parties are agreed that the absolute veto is doomed. The electors must choose whether the great steps of constitutional development will be made by the party believingrjn Democracy, or the party nervously seeking a new rallying ground,! however precarious, for the privileges monopoly.