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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 805, 30 April 1910, Page 5

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■ UNOPPOSED. , ' ; By Telegraph—Press Association—OopyriEbi London, April 2S. Mr. W. L. Hunter, K.C., who went, before 'his constituency (Govan division of Lanarkshire), on being ' appointed Solicitcr-General for Scotland ■ (in succession to Air. A. Dewar, appointed'to a Scottish judgeship), has been re-elected unopposed for" Govan. Mr. Mitchell-Thomson, a Unionist, was returned unopposed for North Down, in .place of .Mr. :T. L. .Corbet* (Conservative), who died on' April 7.'

THE NEW MEMBER. Mi. AV. ■■Mitchell-Thomson,, in : .1908; in a threeTCornered contest, won for the Unionists the Scottish seat North-west Lanarkshire, which* had been Liberal right back to 1895. His success in 1806 was due to the Labour,candidate polling heavily, at the expense of tho Liberal. In January last the Labour candidate did not poll nearly so heavily, and Mr. W. M. B. Pringle won,back the seat to Liberalism, 'turning a Unionist majority of 675 in 1906 into a Liberal majority of 894. . ■ ' Mr. Mitchell-Thomson has been described as'"one of tho most promising of the younger members of thto Conservative party," and it is therefore, not surprising to see him step into that safe Conservative scat, North Down, on the death of Mr. T. L. Corbeit. Though now an Irish member, he is a. Scot of tho Scots, tho eldest son of Sir Mitcholl Mitchell-Thomson, Bart., formerly Lord Provost of ; Edinburgh. He is a member of the Royal Scottish Archers, and Scottish Liberalism must be staunch to have rejected such an appeal. ■' ■