IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. TWO BY-ELECTIONS.

Evening Post, Volume XLIII, Issue 62, 14 March 1892, Page 2

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. TWO BY-ELECTIONS.

THE FEAUDULENT M.P. | UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION. | London, 12th March. Thomas Healy, a brother of Tim's, has been elected unopposed for the Woxford North seat, rendered vacant by the resignation of Mr. John Redmond. The election of a member to fill the vacancy in the Kirkcaldy seat, caused by the death of Sir George Campbell, took place to-day, ■when Mr. Dalziel (Gladstonian Liberal) was returned by a majority of 1036 over his opponent, Mr. Cox, the Conservative candidate. Mr. G. W. Hastings, member for East Worcestershire, who was sentenced to five years' imprisonment for fraud, will be expelled from the House of Commons. Latest. A SLIGHT TO THE GOVEENMENT. MB. BALFOUE INDIGNANT. I SPECIAL. I (Eeceived March 14, 10.50 a.m.) London, 12th March. The votes of several members interested in the East African Company on the question of voting i>2O,OOD to defray the expense of surveying the railway from Mombassa to Lake Victoria Nyanza, were disallowed by a majority of five. Several Tories voted with the majority, but a large number did not vote at all. The Daily News says Mr. Balfour has threatened to resign the Leadership of the House of Commons in the event of a repetition of what ho regards as a slight upon the Government. Hastings, the fraudulent M.P., admitted embezzling .£6OOO.