BRITISH ELECTIONS.

North Otago Times, 6 December 1910, Page 2

BRITISH ELECTIONS.

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• - Per Press 'Assodation.*' | Received December 5, .at 11.10 p.m. . .j. . ' London, December 5., ■ The 1 Daily Chronicle ■ declares that a crushing How has :been . dealt, at . the hopes of the food-taxing party. London has given a magnificent--lead to the', country j. n the discouragement tarnlites and vat Mr- Balfour'sreferendum' trick;'- awUthe novinc'ement .that' the tariff was > not' V.. the. issilie of -tihe~ election was shown by the fall of the Tory vote at Birmingham from an\ aggregate of 20,682 to 1 15,981, aud ■ the . Micrease . of the Liberal vote,., which nearlycaptured West ' Bromwich.. The v decrease of- the Tory:;.vote- in London is 13,590f compared with: the Liberal • vote o! '5;873..-"The poll throughout.: «• the county is 348,7*10 - against. 306,489 for the peers. The Tory. majority-:at Gloucester-, U;four„and ; .'at five; %iid the eausrj : ,v o! freetrado and a; free; House • >.oI ; Commons is already safe, '' * v The Daily Nflws states that • apy,hope, of the peers' party .that they' will 'he victorious has been '; shat* vtered. •: " • y . The Duke of Norfolk remarked on 'Saturday that it was not « question ' of the peers versus the. people, • but. the peers and people against the, •' House of Commons. ; i Thd Daily' News says this -sugges- , tion ia not the question of the • wolf versus Red Hiding'hood, but the wolf : ,and t Bed Ridin'ghood against. :■ ;the watchdog; •The D.uka'sremark. ; was thafcthe.ad- •' mission imeant trying . .to kill w0.." ,' watchdog; but Red, ■ Eidinghood realises that we can safely , leave it . to her which she will side with. , Londoii, ;Dec.'s. • ■ The, Unionist newspapers';consider. j the pollings encouraging. • -.•■ ' The' Standard argues that.,the Min- , istry is already condemned owing to ' its, impotence. Mr William Redmond was ovation- , ed 'by his Cork supporters, Ha i spoke from -Hi,brake, with the Amei> j lean stars.and stripes on his right,