N.S.W. ELECTIONS.

King Country Chronicle, Volume IV, Issue 303, 15 October 1910, Page 5

N.S.W. ELECTIONS.

+. — - Heavy Polling. By Telegraph.-—Prw Association.--Copyright Received October 14, 10.25 p.m. Sydney, Last Night. The weather is fine and polling was generally heavy. All parties showed extreme activity and hundreds of vehicles of all sorts were pressed into service. There was a rush when the booths opened and voting continued steady throughout the day with another rush towards the close. The booths were crowded. Numbers who put off voting until the last minute were shut out. Women showed an increased interest and recorded their votes much more freely than at the previous election. The returns are coming in very slowly. The early figures show the Liberals to be fairly holding their own. Messrs Wade and McGowan are back with large majorities. When the last Parliament dissolved the state of parties was—Liberal 53, and Labour 37.

Sydney Keegan, Labour, defeated Hon. Hogue, Minister of Education, at Glebe. Osborne, Labour, defeated Oakes, Hon. Minister, at Paddington. Labour also won the King division of the city from the Liberals. McGowan defeated his Liberal opponent by nearly three to one.

LABOUR IN MAJORITY. LICENSE RETURNS INCOMPLETE Received October 15, 12.30 a.m. Sydney, Last Night. The Liberals have lost three more seats—Marrickville, Surrey Hills, and Newcastle—to the Labour party. Hon. Moore, Minister of Lands, looks like suffering defeat at Bingara. The other Ministers are apparently safe, but the bulk of the country returns are very incomplete. Received October 15, 1.5 a.m.

Enormous crowds surround the newspaper offices, watching the posting of the returns and cheering and counter cheering as the numbers go up. The latest returns, including the probables, give Labour 35 seats, the Liberals 30, and the Independent Liberals 1. Several other seats are in the balance, while the bulk of the others are so incomplete it is impossible to forecast the result. The local option returns are extremely backward and it will probably be days before complete. The returns are so small they do not form an index of the true position. In 6 they favour reduction; in 14 others, chiefly about the city, they favour continuance. The latter result was expected. Received October 15, 1.10 a.m.

The indications point to Labour securing several further victories in the country.

Morisb, who captured King Reid'B old seat, is what is known as a Continental Socialist. Sir Jas. Grahame's defeat at Surrey Hills, robs the Liberals of a prominent supporter. Bruntnell, elected for Annandate, is secretary of the New South Wales Alliance. Received October 15, 1.13 a.m. The latest, return gives the Labour party forty-four members, and the Liberal party thirty-eight. It is reported that Petersham has carried no-license.

LABOUR 47, LIBERALS 33. Received October 15, 9.20 a.m. Sydney, This Day. On the present figures,though in a few cases later returns may possibly alter the position, the "Herald" gives the state of parties in the new House as Labour, 47 and Liberals 33. The "Telegraph" gives Labour 46 and the Liberals 34.

Labour lost only one seat. The Liberals regained Upper Hunter, while, to their previous captures, Labour added Macquarrie, Namoi and Mudgee, and defeated Hon. Moore, Minister of Lands, at Bingara. It appears certain that Hon. Hogue was defeated by tho narrow margin of 136. Second ballots are required in North Sydney, and probably two other electorates, in all of which the Independent Liberal split the vote.

Rev. Crawford, who replaces the Liberal at Marrickville, is an exCongregational minister.

CONTINUANCE CARRIED. PRESS COMMENTS. Received October 15, 10.5 a.m. Sydney, This Day. The Petersham report was premature. Later figures show it carried reduction only, but nearly all no license votes are so incomplete as to make it, impossible to say anything really definite. Allowries latest returns make it appear that it carried no license. The complete count may alter the result. The city electorates remain true to continuance, and in suburbs known as working men's suburbs, there ap-