FEDERAL ELECTIONS.

Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 301, 20 December 1922, Page 5

FEDERAL ELECTIONS.

STILL TRICKLING IN. NO CHANGE IN PARTIES. • CRy Cable—l'ress Awmiatiou.—CnpyrigbU fßo.'cived I".: , ." a.m.) SYDNEY, this day. Kleetion figures ;ire still trickling in without materially atfei-ting the state of the parties. Much depends on Hie drift of the Country vote-» when the preference.-, are licinir ilistrilmtoilThe position is still in such a lluid conditidii tliat the papers continue to alter their estimates :it short notice. The "Herald" now gives the Liberals 31 seats. Labour 24. and tin- Country party 13, with live still doubtful. Tito "Telegraph" anticipates lliat the! new Parliament will consist of 3:! Xβ- , tiomilists. 2H Labour. 14 Country party, cue Liberal, and one Independent. The -Daily Mail" gives Labour -2K. ■ Nationalists ii, Country party 11. Liberal* two. Independent imp.' doubtful eight..' The Somite figure- an , ~ti!l insufficiently advanced, ami the itnsition too complex even to venture an estimate, beyond i hat Labour appear* likely to strcniithen its nosition in the new Parliament. -I A. and 5.7.. Cnble.l MR. HUGHES' INTENTIONS. ONUS ON COUNTRY PARTY. SYDNT.Y. UereuiW'i- in. As anticipated. Liter election return* are improving the position of the Couutry purl). The outlook for Mr. A. S. l!i'.d»ers i Minister of I iMiawi i.s more pi'uniisinji. and it i* now c.\|.i.cd that lie will M-rupe in on -■■■■■.>:ul |n'vferencc«. The National-. Liberal, and Cuuntry pnties cneli ran n \\oma:i candidate, and all thiQi made a poor • bowing. The t*li I oliiue I'n-.- ,id\i-i-:itr» that Mr. 11 lights s!mul,l iv-i-ii. 1 i:l it is mult rMoud that Mr. Uiif-lus intends td mwt the House, thrmvhiji upon Hi:* i i unt ry parly ■>!■ auv uther members the onus r.f taking nct:uli if they se,' fit to force a crisis, should the reader of the Country party, who;/ c'.iief grievance ii aeainst Mr. l'lu S hc-' p.-r.-i.na! leadership of the ant i Socialistic fores, in the meantime decline that his parly will no! supiort Mr. Hughes, a declaration which nt the present juncture is not expected, then the position will he altered, and Mr. hand will I..i> forced. —I A. and N.Z. Cable.)