BRITISH ELECTIONS.

North Otago Times, 8 December 1910, Page 2

BRITISH ELECTIONS.

By Electa Telegraph.-i Copyright, Per Press Association. E«oeived December 7, at 5.5 a.m, ;■..':■.' London, Dec, 6. Sunderland (two seats)— .Greenwood . (L) ... 11,997

GoMstome, (Lab.) ';.. 11,291 Hicks (U) ... ... ... •..;,10,300 • Samuel (0). . 1D.132 Previous election $' Storey tT.B. 1 ) 12,334, Knott (U) 12,270, Stuart (L) 11,529, Summer-bell (Lab) 11,058. Earl Spencer stated tbat ;he believed 'before lon® the country would: say to the House of Lords: VAway with you, if you do not abide by our wishes," He.said be was asstaunch; a Home Ruler as ever, and added that he wanted to know much more about the referendum .. before adhering to it. Mr Balfour, at Sheffield, alluding to the referendum, iwMchMie proposedto call a.pfrll of the people, and which-would not 'be taken on party lines, said' the Unionists were challenged whether they would accept a poll on tariff reform. The opponents expected a refusal, but when, unfortunately for Mr JAsquith, the 'Unionists were consistent, they turned round and described it as a party subterfuge, How different were the feelings of ■& man when he said come on and his.feelings when his antagonist responded. Lord Lansdowne, "speaking at Cardiff, declared that their-opponents forgot:to. say that they had found a place for a referendum in the Constitution given to South Africa. Sir E, Grey, at Wooler, said that to ask the Government to submit Home Rule to a referendum apart from the scheme of devolution ; and redistribution, whereof it formed - a part, was equivalent to asking the protectionists to submit the| food taxes of the tariff reform budget to a ri-ferendura* With the. referendum there would be no need for a House of Lords or House of Commons. A staff of di afting clerks was all that would be necessary. In view of the Socialist attacks on the . Government, the talk of a Liberal-Socialist alliance was, moonshine.

Lord Rosebery, in a message to Scotland through the Glasgow Herald, declared that the dissolution was the) most, wain-ton and reckless the country had known. Thereby the Government proposed! to establish the tyranny of a Single Chamber Government, to remove tha,hereditary constitution of the House of Lords, and alter by a catch election, the immemorial balance of the Constitution, Moreover, they refused to refer the question of Irish Home Rule direct to the decision of the people. Lord Heanage and Mr Henry, Hobhouse, 'ex-member for East Somerset, warmly, support Mr Balfour's policy. Received December 7, at 9/45 a.m. London, Dec. G.

Sir H, lumber, speaking at Wandsworth, Agreed with Mr Nesbitt that there was danger of the colonies feeling that the ties binding them to the Mother Country were loosened by the crippling of Constitutional safeguards. The percentage of electors polling yesterday was 74,-" compared with 80 in the- January elections.

Received December 7, at 11.50 a.m. '' London, December 6. Li\«rpool (Walton Division)— '< F, B. Smith (U) C 3353 Permewan 5039 Previous election: Smith (U) 0(120, Joseph (L) 5513,, E. G. Jollicoe 4813, Messrs J. W. Lowther (U) and J: Dillon (N) have be?n, re-elected unopposed, St. Helen'sR..Swift (U) ..j 6016 T. Glover (Lab) i- 5752 Previous election: Glover G512, Swift 5717. Southwark (West)lRauss (L) 3028 Sir W. H. Dunn (U) 3010 Previous election; Dunn (U) 3387, Causton (L) 3233. Strand— Hon. F. H, Long(U) 4144 Bark (L) U39 Previous election j Long (U) 4840, Oostello (L) 1630. . WtitehavcnRiehai'dson (Lab) 1414 Colonel Jackson (U) ....... .1220 Previous election: Jackson (D) 1188, Wandlcss (L) 852, Sharp (Lab) 825.

CoventryMason (L) 7351 J. K. Foster (U) ..., 08^3 Previous election: Foster (U) 7369, Silas Hocking (L) 7153.

Burnley—- ..' Morrell (L) , ... •.... 6177 ■ Arbuthnpt (TJ) 6004 1 Hyndinan (See;) ... ... ... 3810 Previous election; Arbuthnot (U) 5776, Madison (L) 5681, Hyndman (S'oc.) 4948, ; i■ | . B&tterfea-~

Jofe Burns (L) ... .-. 7836 Harrington (U) ... 6544 1 P-haw (Soc.) ...... 487 Previous election : Burns 8540, Benn <U) 7985. Wool victor

Will Crooks (Lab) 8252 Majbr Adams (U) ... ..'. ... 8016 Previous .election; .Adams (U') 8715, Crooks &M) 8420. . The returns so far give the two main parties' the following support: Government .'> 152 Unionists ... ... 146 Received! Pecemta 7, at 10.50 p.m. London, December 7.Mr Wyndham, at Stourbridge, eaid whatever tha result of th«, elections, half the electors would declare against the Government's change of constitution, and no constitution could stand that which' was based m only half the voters of tlie country'. . The Earl of Derby, at a Unionist meeting at Lancaster, comparing the Government's! veto reaolutioo with tods Rosefoery's and Lanadowne's proposals, said he confessed he. relinquished; the hereditary right without aqualmof conscience,-, be* cause' he 'believed they : could render infinitely better service v to : the State sitting in the House of 'Lords' as representatives of a great city than as.their father's■.son, ■whereas under, thei/parliament". Bill ;he;>wo,uW;be. voteless 'find •& nicfe male: suffragette; \ Mr' Balfour,; at.Chester, 'cballenged M^Asgufetbi disclose; his;: ; Homo : Rule policy. He said' 'if-the' people;

knew the Increased, burdens aud other, danger of Home Rule they would revolt against it, but the Liberals were determined to keep tho peoplo in ignorance, hence the astute nolicy of silence dictated by Mr Redmond. London, Dec. 6. The,. Financial News .states that another general election is now pretty clearly indicated. Before it can occur we shall 'doubtless see a scheme of redistribution arranged. This means another conference.

The Daily News states that the present general election, wherein London broke the back of Toryism and destroyed the veto, and ite example has inspired the rest of tho country. . , J Received Dec. 8, at 12.25 a.m. London, Dec. 7. The following are the results of the election:' " I —Government.— England 104 Scotland 11 Wales H' Ireland (Redmondites) ... 26 t) -Unionists.- . w England ,W Scotland JA Ireland '"^Sf Sir E. Grey, at Louth, said The Home Rule that Mr Redmomt declared would satisfy Ireland did not mean separation or that it would be dangerous to Imperial supremacy. Mr ¥,( Smith, at} Runoorn, declared that if the-Government got a majority nobody knew, what sort of Home Rule they would' introduce. The people under the Veto Bill were invited to make the greatest sacrifice and the greatest repudiation of power the democracy would ever make. The prospects of tariff reform were encouraging, since. on the Manchester poll there were twenty thousand Liberals, a majority of .three thousajidr •■.;:;