FEDERAL ELECTIONS.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 12635, 21 December 1903, Page 3

FEDERAL ELECTIONS.

SYDNEY”, Saturday. Further information as to the results of the Federal elections is to band. At Hunter (New South Wales), which Sir Edmund Barton formerly represented. Mr F. Liddell (Opposition) had a thumping majority over Mr J. H. F. Waller (Ministerialist). At Couper (New South Wales) the Government whip (Mr F. TTlarke) suffered defeat at the hands of Mr H. W. Lee (Opposition). For Corio (Victoria) the Opposition candidate, Mr Donald Macdonald (who in Ladysmith as a war corresponmade a good tight, but Mr R. A. Crouch (Ministerialist), the old member, was too strong for him. In the contest for Brisbane (Queensland), Dr Culpin (Labour) was elected in place of the Hon T. MacdonaldPaterson (Independent) the former member. Air Grattan Wilson (Opposition) won the election at Corangamite (Victoria).

ENGLISH PRESS COMMENTS. fßeceived December 21, 0.53 a.m.) LONDON, December 20. The “St. James’ Gazette” considers that the Labour victory is a misfortune for Australia. It is an engaging programme that every employee is to be bis own employer, but a ruinous one for Australia. The “Daily News” says the election is dead against Mr Chamberlain’s policy, to which Australia is indifferent. The “Standard” thinks that moderate men may save the situation by a coalition, though that 5s unlikely. It predicts that the Commonwealth will experience a most trying regime, and fears that the dogmas of militant and intolerant trade unionism will be applied in a drastic and # provocative form. It is significant that control should have passed to the most rabid Protectionists. Colonial preference finds hardly a kind word from Australian workers; there is no whisper of any return for offered advantages.