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CAMBRIDGE BY-ELECTION,

COALITIONIST EBTUSHED.

(By Cablo—Press Association—CopyrijJA) (Australian and N.2. Cabla Association.) LONDON, March 17. The Cambridge ' borough by-clec-tion, made necessary by the resignation of Sir Eric Gcddes from tho House of Commons, resulted: — t?ir Douglas Newton (Coalition Conservative) ... 10,987 Mr Drtlton (Lnoour) •••< 6,90-i Mr G. H. Morgan (Independ-ent-Libernl) ... 4,529 | The voting at the last General Election was: Sir Eric Geddes, 11,553; R®v. T. R. Williams (Labour), 3789-] A MUtUAEY CANDIDATE. (Received March 18th, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, March 17. Tho most interesting pending byelection is Chortsey, vacant through the death of Sir Donald Macmnster (Coali-tion-Unionist). The candidates are: Sir Phillip Richardsor (Conservative and Unionist), who led tho British Riflemen to Australia, and General Gougli (Independent Liberal). The lattcr's campaign consists principally of a defence of the Fifth Army owing to charges that he is soaking to enter Parliament, chiefly through a persona' grudge against the Government which recalled him from the" Western Front.

THE SWINDON SEAT. (Received March 18th, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, March 17. Sir Frederick Young announces that he does not intend to stand again for Swindon at the general election. MK MONTAGU'S SUCCESSOR. (Raceived March 18th, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, March 17. Viscount Peel succeeds Mr E. _S. Montagu as Secretary of State for India. "HOLD TOGETHER." ADVICE TO UNIONISTS. (Received March 18th, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, Match 17. Lord Derby, addressing tho Junior Carlton Club, said ho had declined the offer of the Secretaryship for India because he believed he could be of more service to his party and the country outside the Government than inside it. fie had not the slightest doubt ho would be able to support the programme which Mr . Chamberlain nad promised to put before the Conservatives prior to the next election. He intended to give unswerving loyalty, unstinted energy and support to the Conservative leaders whether inside or outside the Cabinet.

The Right Hon. Stanley Baldwin urged tho Coaservatives to hold together so that when the election comes they could fling the whole weight of thoir influence into the same scale.

THE LIBERAL PARTY. WHAT BEUNION INVOLVES. (Received March 18th, 5.5 p.m.) LONDON, March 17. Viscount Gladstone, in a letter to the Press on the reunion of the Liberal Party, states that the position, of the Independent Liberals is: "W© ore a party in being founded on definite principles, which condemns absolutely the policy of the Coalition Government since .1918, and that we offer an alternative Government to the country, lieunion involves either the acceptance by Mr Lloyd George, and his Cabinet colleagues of the condemnation of their own policy or the surrender by the Independent Liberals of their whole position. We have no intention of surrendering that position. The other alternative rests with Mr Lloyd George."

THE INVERNESS POLL. (Received March 18th, 11.5 p.m.) LONDON, March 17. The Inverness by-election icsulted: — Sir Murdoch Mac Donald (Coalition Unionist) ... 8340 Mr Livingstone (IndependentLiberal) ... 8024 [At the general election the voting was—Rt. Hon. T. B. Morison (Coali-tion-Liberal) 7991, G. J. Bruce (Independent) 2930.]