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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 180, 25 April 1908, Page 5

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RESULT - OF DEWBBURY. - . ■. . LIBERAL MAJORITY LESS BY Ot r ER 2,000 VOTES. (Rec. April 24, 10.40 p.m.) •' .London, April 24. ' Mr. Walter Runciman, President of the Board of Education, has been re-elected for Powsbury. „ The same threo candidates stood as ■'■'contested•• the last election, "The figures for oaoh .election (the old one being given, inthe second column)^aro. as iindorV- '. " i . i f ' 1008. 19i)6. Mr. W;' Runoiman (Lib.) 5594 6764 Mr. 'Boyd-Carpenter (Uni.) ... 4078 2959 Mr. 'Ben Turner (Lab.) ... 2446 '2629 Lib. majority ovor Uni. ... 1516 3805 Decrease in majority ;,. ... f 2289 Decrease in Lib. votes ... ... 1170 Increase in Uni. votes'•,■.-....'■■ ... 1119 Dscrease in Lab. votes-... ....; ... 133 .MR. CHURCHILL. CONFIDENT PREDICTION OF HIS' DE- / ; FJ3AT. ' . ' (Rec. April 24, 10.40 p.m.) . Londonj April 24: ■The'special correspondent at, Manchester for "The' Times,',', giving 'the rccults' of. careful' calculations, ! confidently'. forecasts Mr. CHurcijill's defeat.: ~ . . v MR. CHURCHILL'S CRITICS. The zeal and minutonoss with which Ml' Churchill's critics'Vsearch.; for any'possibh hole in. his coat, howevor romote in its date 0 irrelevant in its, bearing, (is exemplified by tin re-hashing, of- the' cscape' from PretQria.,' Thoj oven followed.;Mr.'Churchill,on.his way dowi the; Nile- during .his, last. African tour,.; and.; t question --was asked in tho. .House of Common! as. to whether ho .did not shoot at a biiffalc from the steamer, "tho<rule against this ing, inost rigid.'';' Mr.:< Arnold Whito" writos-tc the , 'Standard"''TJhe' question asked byj Sii Clement ' Hill; arid ' evaded by the' UndorSecretary, • .interests:'!;both sportsmen' and author?,; If , his, Majesty's; Ministers break-'the rules and regulations ■governing sport in Brifcisn territory, punishment of cdckiiey gunners who slay;,for. slaughter'and' not for tile pot' or W museum is .unjust., , 'As.fegards tho.interest' of.authors.and writers in Mr,-' Churchill's trip;, is it 'not somewhat 'hard that,- 'with War' £ a ' se ?-.•?», t? 1110 of, peace, wo . should be "made to pay the cost of His Majesty's' ship Veniis's' tnp to in order that Mr. Winston Churchill inay. swell. his 'income by writing' Fascinating papers/for' a magazine? ■-iPrssum--1 /. -]- 0 -T??. ■not write as; a 'philanthropist.-i-itrid,' if.'not,-' what'-become of ■' th© solf-denying which .'members of .this ' Ministry ■profess not to.swell their incomes by outside labours? . '' ' . The ■ Pal| Mall Gazette"- declares,- withermgjy, that in 1886 .Mr.'. T. W: ■ Russell " fought magnifieontly, unsparingljy and most successfully for the - Union on -the' platform arid"'iii the print; Whether his later career is to be considered harmonious or at variance with'this' depends, upon the' individual's -views aboutIrish, land'matters, if'he'has any." v f Still, the ■"Gazette'' admits that Mr. ®ussell'>hasibeen a,-whole-hogger in' his Irish land reform movbniont., Tho "Daily Mail,".sums up Mr. Russell as." a, Scot by 'birth, but an Irishman by adoption }•' a, temperance reformer; although, compelled in 19P0 to resign his position of -Parliamentary Secretary.' 1 to - the 3 Looal . Government Board.' .Through his .advocacy of lantj'purchase, he did nipro than :any other man in' Parliament,' next to.'.Mr..' Wyiidha'm, to the passing of'the Land' Bill pf 1903. •^