GOVERNMENT BEATEN.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 192, 16 August 1927, Page 7

GOVERNMENT BEATEN.

OVERTHROW AT MALTA. " (Received 11 a.m..) ■, MALTA, August 15. The general election for the Legislative Assembly of Malta, under the proportional representation system, has been held. The poll has resulted in the return of 15 Constitutionalists, of whom Sir Gerald Strickland it the .'leader, 13 Nationalists, 3 Labour candidate* and 1 Independent. . . . • The Nationalist Government was therefore defeated, ■-.„_ «s the Constitutionaliste. and the Labour party entered into a compact before the election.* ■*■ Sir Gerald Strickland has accepted the Premiership, also the portfolios of Justice and Head, of the Police. Sir Gerald Strickland, who was born at Malta in 1861, was educated at Oscott College, Birmingham, and Trinity College, Cambridge. |i 1883*4 he travelled the world. He wan assistant secretary of Malta in 1888 and chief secretary a year later; He was Governor of Leeward Isles, 100841, of Tasmania 190*40, of West Australia lflW-13, and afterwards Governor of Xew South Wales 1914-17. He estab* lished central factories for sugar and cotton in Antigua, and received the CM.G. for his service* as chairman of the Malta Cholera , Committee. Hβ is lord of the manors of Sisergh and Natland. Sir Gerald is a Conservative, member in the British House of Commona for Lancaster Division.