CONSERVATIVE MEETING.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 20 October 1922, Page 5

CONSERVATIVE MEETING.

GOVERNMENT DEFEATED IN BY-ELECTION, LONDON. Oct.lß. _~ The Daily Mail states that in defiance of Mr. Austin Chamberlain the National Unionist Association decided to summon an emergency meeting forthwith tojliscuss the situation. The move.came with dramatic suddenness, and resulted in the immediate summoning of Conservative Ministers. —United Service. LONDON, Oct. 19. The Newport (Monmouthshire) byelection, rendered necessary by the death of Mr. L. Haslam (Coalition- .-,_■■ Liberal), _ resulted :— Clarry (Conservative) 13,515 Bowen (Labour) 11,245 Moore (Liberal) 8,841 *■ ——

None of the candidates were officially Coalition, but the Liberal was indirectly supported by Downing Street, where Mr. Garry's victory is feared to be a great blow to the Coalition's prestige . —Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. The voting at the last general elections was: L. Haslam (CoalitionLiberal), 14.080; J. W. Bowen (Labour), 10,324; B.P. Thomas (Independent), 647. LONDON, Oct. 19. Sir L. Worthington Evans (Secretary for War), speaking at Colchester, said the foreign situation required an election, ,as no British Minister could go to the peace conference authoritatively unless an election first decided the nation's policy. "Personally," he added, "I would stand as a Conservative. That did not mean that I would tell Conservative-minded Liberals who agreed with the Conservatives' main issues at the election that I did not want their help." He said it was likely no party would have a clear majority, in which event he would certainly choose a LiberalConservative combination.