ITS FATE SETTLED.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIX, Issue 117, 19 May 1910, Page 7

ITS FATE SETTLED.

SOUTH AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT. BELATED RETURNS. THE FLINDERS ELECTIONS. By .Telegraph.— Press Aiseciatioc — Copyright. (Received May 19, 10.45 a.m.) ADELAIDE, This Day. The final Tesult of the elections for the Flinders seats in the South Australian Parliament gives Labour a majority, a.nd settles the fate of the Peake-Butler Administration. NEVER IN DOUBT. (By "Unionist.") A summary of the political situation In South Australia was given in the "</abour Notes" in The Post of 7th May. To day's message only goes to confirm I lie view of the position then taken. The of the Peake-Butler Ministry wan \ settled a week after election day — (2nd I April) — when latest returns then availj able showed the state of parties to be : Labour 22, Ministerialists 20. Excepting 1 the members of the Peake Cabinet, evpry | body else admitted the impossibility of additional returns altering the position of ■ parties. j In Flinders the return pf Mr. O'Loghj lin (Labour) was never in doubfc after the I publication of the ilrst return*. This , electorate returns three representatives. There were but two Labour candidates, against six others professing allegiance to the Liberal Party. Mr. O'Loghlin headed the poll from start to finish of the returns from various polling places ; his colleague was never in the running. It was sheer pretence for the Peake Party to expect that a handful of postal votes would displace Mr. O'Loghlin. Apparently Mr. Peake and his colleagues agree that "it is as well to be hanged for a sheep as a lamb," and intend sticking to office till the inevitable sudden death motion. A precedent for so doing has already been established in j South Australia. The late Mr. Price carI ried more than one no-confidence m<ij tion before the then Holder Ministry threw up the sponge. Labour's occupancy and lengthy retention of the State Treasury Benches is assured. Sir Jenkin Coles will accept 1fo« Speakership, most likely as the nominee of the Labouv Party. Mr. Verran aas been re-elected Leader of the Labour j Party on the unanimous voice of mem- j bers of the party. Within a week or two j at the outset he will also be Premier of South Australia, heading a pledged party of 22 Labour members as against a Peake-Butler following of 19 at most, and possibly less in the new House, Because of personal feud and dissension. released: » DINIZULU'S INDUNA. By Telegraph.— Press Association.— Copyright. (Received May 19, 10 a.m.) LONDON, 18th May. Ma-ukulumanaj Dinizulu's induna, who has >been in prison for some time, has been, released. [Dinizulu, the paramount chief of Zululand, was over a year ago sentenced to four years' imprisonment for sheltering rebels. Some of the lesser chiefs, including Maukulumana, were also punished. During the trial of Dinizulu one of his wives stated that she had heaa-d him order Maukulumana to "summon the regiments for war."] THE RED FLAG. GERMAN IMMIGRANTS ON MAY DAY. By Telegraph.— Press Association.— Copyright (Received May 19, 10.45 a.m.) PERTH, 18th May. A party of a hundred German immigrants for Queensland arrived by the steamer Oslerley. They celebiated May Day by hoisting a red flag and singing "The Marseillaise. " BRITISH RAILWAYS. REDUCED PASSENGER TRAFFIC. By Telegraph.— Press Association.— Copyright. (Received May 19, 10 a.m.) LONDON, 18th May. Statistics show the following decreases in the number of passengers carried on the railways in the United Kingdom during the year, 1909 : — First-class, 1,565,103 ; second-class, 3,325.562 ; thirdclass 8,637,823.