THE PROPHETS JUSTIFIED.

Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 309, 30 December 1922, Page 4

THE PROPHETS JUSTIFIED.

i BUT A OAW. WOMEN CANDIDATES SCO»XE D . " iFrom ° Dr °™ Correspondent) LONDON, November 16. ug . - tIV - already 200 I the prophets will be justified. Beffi ' far o< ]y, for no one expected elch 1 turn nver v> the Labour r»rtyV?ortY the tVee Free, fourteen new aeafa Th.' • Conservatives had so far only »ei»S ■ eght new seats, the Lloyd d^2 The feminists aTe mournful, for as vef • Lady Astor is the only woman returnee But on no other count are they down! hearted, for the woman candidates bast madl> g 00 " appearances at the polte tb* smallest, Commandant Mary Allen of the Women Police. R u t that was in'tli. hotly-contestrd St. Oeorge's Westminster ; where she fought the disgruntled WTiin Col. Leslie Wilson, who wag refused entrance to the historic Carlton Club meeting, and even he -mas defeated by the sitting member, an Independent This seems to be a sort «f dramatic jwl fee. for Lord Birkenhead jepral at 00l Leslie a.* havine rrn away from a constituency arrl ripscrtod a Wder. Br. Cbanple has sained Dumfriesshire for thf> Liboralß. obtaining 13.21W vnte* as a<*s>ir.at thp Conservative 1>1.055. Thp Cardiff results are not yet known, so we know not Col. Frevber<r's fatp. One of tile jrreat. surprises is the Atfea+ of the new Minister of Health. Sir Griffith Boscawen. forraerlv "Minigter of Ap-rir-n'tu'c. by a Liberal at TaunW B'lt Mr. Baldwin. OianpolloT r-f tl«» fkehenuer. Mt. Ronald MeK«ffl. TTn*>r- , secretary of Foreign Affairs. Mr.' Ormsby Oore. T T nd«>r-"ecri>tarv of tlie Colon>ar. nnd Lorrl Wnlmor. Pirliumft.. tarv Secretary of th« BooTd "f Trad*. »11 retain seats. Mr. Neville Hipnibcrlain. Trho nr>(s' P.VO. b" >fr. 'Rmm.r T.aw- is returned as well as Mr. Aueten of Birminpliain. While in numerics" , c t-r»ni?+}i +h» ■Labour pwrtv has come in mimWj m»"'i mnr» *>-in '-><1 l»»»n after tli» l»ndnli(1» rliev M in ih& rer-ent. "muriicinql pTftc+ione +1i«i- ;- ---n<ialitv wnu to bo letoeTied n-lthowl) + hnt :» j.. footor which. p" tl<» hpit »». h»= to eTJiftriTp. Mr. Vader. lias Wp- ilpf»«to<l. Wt. pot in f"* "Plpttinir M*inl<>>«--t er h"t by only ■> tln-»<. fi«mro Tnninrif". aiv' i>♦ l««f. olec+inn wot vnA +Ti;<= in an electorate of over thirtr Tlio "'nMlicentnia" of +!.« T.flWir Ii»« obtained siinnorf *t the pq denced*nnt ,, " r»*nm of *1<« nrilli««(; w»!»ir X.C.. iMr. T*tri"k Haoimin. for TCT.User" , . V. F. O. WpromoTde. nleo <■ X.C.. for Crowe in the Tjiixrar 1 iiriWost. -- T>..* to ♦Tip "-witpet vintnrr- for There L»uuu" .Crfl'"nfl nio-Tit epfl** fw. ilr. Amery'e "big maioTitv of nearlr *>.00n in thp three-come.red ficht i« p«r--I"JDs the most eennfltional victory for the Conservatives. wHo, while tjiey *T* reT>orted as "satisfied" with tile; w»v things -are ?oine cannot now hope for-, an independent maioritv. Ruf pHhonn-h Labour bai rnndp »nvmexpectedlv (rood show in thp iiu'iwtr'*' areas, some of tliem won n minority vot*. a point unon wliich thp supporteTS of Tironortional '•"nresentation will V niiicV to seizp Tims at rqrliale Mr. MiHdVton flip Jahour candidate srot in nr> T S7O votes, ulthowh ther» werp over 13.000 casf against him. Mr. Clairfe T/owther. a yell-known member of & Coiservativp faniilv bein? defeated. Anions' other return? in thi« bijr 'I**'!on Holrl. the fotv— -I Alfwi Butt by the voters of Ba">am ""H T«ot<ncr <lpcprvps mention. Sir Alfred li»>! Ion? before liis m.rliampntftrv d»VS fr.ur.rl tno n'amp r,f )ii« constitiipnT ««- fill for tilp variety <=ta?e wnnH he loet barl it sroer to tliTow at Balham or , it?"""* ** * T* rtr *f •"' t . Vaior H. T*. Cavzer keeiw liis seat ten thousand. :i"'l t*" vote* on** foTitH aTW .>,,ptprl fr. ,i"'l «;.t>. fn-ntv ♦^r.llaamJ. tj; r f Tnnln-a- Poot". rhe ttpUjVuo'"! «- T Hpr ™ Tnn«"-i"' ••"hie"**, rptoins tiip =r»t vritil 9 f llPftrlv **" fl-o..*n"r]. :i dr<Ml frr.r.l hie 1»«* "«ic'>"»' ,-f wjrlr t p« TT« W <1 T.«lI formpr v.rV r,iT,a thousand. ttl» ' latfr-r =ix t'.ninand. I