BRITISH ELECTIONS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10135, 8 December 1910, Page 5

BRITISH ELECTIONS.

FURTHER RESULTS. LiiiERALS RETAIN A SMALL LEAD. (Received Last Night, 10 o'clock.) LONDON, December 6. Polling is' still proceeding in the borough and country constituencies. The following further returns :ire announced:— Sunderland (Tivo Scats.) Mr Haimir Greenwood (L.) 11,99? Mr Goldstone (Lab.) 11,292 Mit Hicks (U.) 10,301) Mr Samuel (U.) 10,132 St. Helens. R. Swift, K.C. (U.) 6016 *T. Glover (Lab.) 5752 Soutliwark West. Mr Strauss (L.) 3028 -Sir W. H. Dunn (U.) 3010 Strand. *Hon. W. H. Long (U.) . 4144 Mr Earle (L.) 1139 Whitehaven. Mr Richardson (Lab.) 1414 *Colonel Jackson (U.) 1220 Coventry, Mr Mason (L.) ' ' 7351 *J. K. Foster (U.) 622S Burnley. Mr Murrell (L.) 6177 Hi. Abuthnot (U.) 6004 Mr Wyndliam (Lab.) 3810 Batter sea. *Hon. John Bums (L.) 7836 Mr Harrington (U.) 6844 Mr Shaw (Socialist) 487 : ■ Woolwich. Mr Will Crooks (Lab.) 8242 *Major W. A: Adams (U.) 8016 UNOPPOSED~RETURNS. (Received December 7 9.45 a.m.) LONDON. December 6. The following members have been re-elected without opposition:— Rt. Hon J. W. Lowther (U.). — Mid-Cumberland*. (Penrith). • : *Mr J. Dillon (Nat.) —Mayo East. THE VERY LATEST. Received This Morning 12.25 o'clock. LONDON, December 6. The latest election results are as follows: LIBERALS. England 104 Scotland 11 Wales 11 Ireland (Redmondites) 26 Total 152 UNIONISTS. England ' 13-5 Scotland Ireland 8 Total • 146 NEWSPAPER CRITICISMS. ANOTHER ELECTION PREDICTED. (Received Last Night, 10.10 o'clock.) LONDON, December 6. The Financial News states that another general election is now pretty clearly indicated. Before it occurs, says the News, we shall doubtless see a scheme of redistribution arranged by means of another conference. The Daily Mail states that the preI sent general election will be remem- | bercd on account of London having broken the back of Toryism and destroyed the veto. London's example had inspired the rest of the country.

OPPOSITION SPEECHES. THE POSITION REVIEWED. Received Last Night, 10.50 o'clock. LONDON, December 7. Lord Wyndham, speaking at Stourbridge, said'that whatever theresalt of the elections, half the electors would declare against the Government's proposal to change the Constitution, and no Constitution could stand which was based on only half the voters of ihe country. Earl Derby, at a Unionist meeting at Lancaster, comparing the Government's veto resolution with Lord Rosebery's and Lord Lansdowne's proposals, said he confessed he had relinquished his hereditary right without a qualm of conscience, because he believed.he could render infinitely better seivice to the State sitting in the Lords as a representative of a great- city than as his father's son. Under the Parliament Bill he would be voteless—a mere male suffragette. The Hon. A. J. Balfour, speaking at Chester, challenged Mr Asquith to disclose his Home Rule policy. He said if the people knew the increased burden and other dangers ot HomeRule they would revolt against it; but the Liberals were deterimned to keep the people in ignorance, hence the astute policy of silence dictated by Mr Redmond.