BRITISH ELECTIONS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10149, 20 December 1910, Page 5

BRITISH ELECTIONS.

GABLE_NEWS United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.

BOTH PARTIES DISAPPOINTED. Received December 19, 8.40 a.m. LONDUN, December 18. The Spectator, reviewing the political situation, says that both parties are disappointed at the results of the eleuioris, though each holds an important rave'. Ihe paper adds that.it is desiraUe to settle the Parliament bill \<y agreement by means of private talks, and not by a formal conference.

'I he Hon. W. Ormsby-Gore has been re-elected foi Denbigh. The election is a protest against Mr Lloyd George's speech in Denbigh, in which he said that it was better a man's right arm was paralysed than that he shculd vote for Ormsby-Gore. The Master of Ltibank, Secretary ,cf the 'J i eat my, declares, en the authority if IV r Arqustu, that the Government propo es to br.ng in a Bill abolishing p ural voting.

MR O'BRIEN'!: DEFEAT.

ALLEGED SHAMELESS COR-

RUPTION.

Received LaM; Night, 10.40 o'clock.

LONDON, December 19.

Mr William O'Brien, speaking af: Westport, said his defeat was due to most incredible ignorance and most, shameless corruption. He demanded a Parliamentary enquiry, which, would reveal the whole history of the coirupt relations of Dublin Castle, and the whole story of Mr Dillon's relations with the Cas'.le. THE REFERENDUM. AND THE LABOUR PARTY. Received Last Night, 11 o'clock. LONDON, December 19. ; Mr Ramsay Mac Donald, speakirig at Leicester, said he- thought it un- . likely, bur if Mr Asquith or.any Government we e induced by anyv high authority to accept as a bargain that certain measures should be decided by referendum in return for the Lords surrendering their veto, the Labour Party would fight them ~,■ tooth and. nail. The referendum ha ,> declared to b& anti-demoeratic; It/ - was impossible to submit to a referendum all the details of a given measure.