GENERAL ELECTION.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13081, 22 January 1906, Page 5

GENERAL ELECTION.

LARGE LIBERAL GAINS.

AN INDEPENDENT

MAJORITY.

MR. MORLEY ON THE LABOUR VICTORIES.

STATE OF PARTIES.

By Telesrjpn.—Press Association—Copyright.

(Received January 21. 4.53 p.m.)

London. January 20. The following is the state of parties up to the present: — Liberals 224 Labour members 40 Irish Nationalists ... TO Unionists ... 96 Total 430 Sir H. Campbell-Bannermans independent majority has created alarm in some Nationalist circles in Ireland.

LATEST RETURNS.

(Received January 21, 4.58 p.m.)

London, January 20.

INVERNESS DISTRICT.

Mr. Annand Bryce (Liberal) 2404 Sir R. B. Findlay (Unionist) 1746 Sir Robert Findlay was Attorney-General in the Balfour Government. WEST BELFAST. Mr. J. Devlin (Nationalist) 4138 Mr. Smiley (Unionist) ... 4122 Mr. Carlisle (Liberal) ... 153 This seat was represented by Mr. ArnoldForster, Minister for War, in the late Parliament. WANDSWORTH. . Mr. Kimber (Conservative) 12,433 Mr. Albert Reed (Liberal) 11,888 STRETFORD. Mr. Nuttal (Liberal ... 11,131 Mr. Cripps (Unionist) ... 8307 MONTROSE. Mr. John Morley 4416 Mr. Sprot (Unionist) ... 1922 BRIGHTON. Mr. Clelland (Liberal) ... 5585 Mr. Dickson ... ... 4019 BLACKFRIARS (GLASGOW). Mr. Barnes (Labour) ... 3284 Mr. Law (Unionist) ... 2974 Mr. Provand (Liberal) ... .2058 Mr. Law was Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade in the late Government." • . ST. ROLLOX (GLASGOW). Mr. Wood (Liberal) ... 9453 Mr. Wilson (Unionist) ... 6048 SLEAFORD.

Mr. Lupton (Liberal) ... 4355 Mr. Chaplin (Unionist) ... 4062

WOODBRIDGE.

Mr. Everett (Liberal) ... 5527 Mr. Pretyman (Unionist) 5384 Mr. Pretyman was Secretary to the Admiralty in the late Government.

SUNDERLAND (two members). Professor Stuart (Liberal) 13,620 Mr. Summers (Labour)... 13,430 Mr. Haggie (Unionist) ... 7,879 Mr. Pemberton (Unionists Free-trader) 7,244 ABERDEEN WEST. Mr. Henderson (Liberal) re-elec-ted. FERMANAGH NORTH. Mr. Featherstonhatigh (Unionist) 2419 Mr. Mitchell (Russellite) ... 2331 At a bye-election in 1903 Mr. Mitchell was elected as a Conservative, defeating Captain Craig, also a Conservative. DARTFORD. Mr. Rowlands (Labour) ... 9532 Sir W. Hart Dyke (Unionist) 6728 At the previous election Sir W. Hart Dyke was elected unopposed.

RE-ELECTED UNOPPOSED. East Cavan: Mr. Samuel Young (Nationalist). North Meath: Mr. Patrick White (Nationalist). Eye Division of Suffolk: Mr. F. S. Stevenson (Liberal). South Galway: Mr. W. J. Duffy (Nationalist). Connemai'a Division of Galway: Mr. O'Malley (Nationalist). County Cork (West): Mr. J. Gilhooley (Nationalist). Leitrim (North): Mr. McHugh (Nationalist). Wexford (South): Mr. French (Nationalist). Westmeath (South): Mr. Sullivan (Nationalist). Cork (North): Mr. Flynn (Nationalist). Roscommon (North): Mr. James O'Kelly (Nationalist). Mid Tyrone: Mr. Murnaghan (Liberal). Kilkenny (North): Mr. Joseph Devlin (Nationalist). Mayo (East): Mr. Dillon (Nationalist). ELECTED UNOPPOSED. South Armagh: Mr. U. McKillop (Nationalist). North Monaghan: Mr. O'Hara (Nationalist). Liex Division, Queens County: Mr. Meehan (Nationalist). North Westmeath: Mr. Ginnell (Nationalist). Down (South): Mr. Liddell (Unionist). Clare (West):, Mr. Halpen (Nationalist).

REELECTED. Shaftsbury Division of Dorset : Mr. A. W. Wills (Liberal). Lichfield: Mr. T. C. F. Warner (Liberal). Totnes: Mr. F. B. Mild way (Unionist). Holmfirth Division of Yorkshire: Mr. H. J. Wilson (Liberal). Sirond: Mr. C. P. Allen (Liberal). Cardigan: Mr. M. Vaughan Davies (Liberal). Chorley : Lord Balcarres (Conservative). Hertford: Mr. A. H. Smith (Conservative). East Antrim : Colonel McCalmont (Conservative). Horncastle: Lord de Eresby Willoughby (Conservative). Lancaster: Mr. N. W. Helme (Liberal). Uxbridge : Sir F. D. Dixon-Hart-land (Conservative). Ashford : Mr. L. Hardy (Conservative). Leith Burghs: Mr. Ronald Ferguson (Liberal). Berwickshire: Mr. Tennant (Liberal). Chelmsford: Sir F. C. Rasch (Conservative). Belfast (South): Mr. Sloan (Independent). Basingstoke: Mr. Jeffreys (Conservative).

LIBERAL GAINS. Faversham: Mr. Napier. Woodstock: Mr. Bennett. Buckingham: Mr. Verney. Eskdale: Mr. Howard. Dumfries: Mr. Molten. Peebles: Master of Elibank. Roxburgh : Sir J. Jardine. Northern Division of Somerset: Mr. W. H. B. Hope.

Bridgewater: Mr. H. Montgomery. Newbury ; Mr. Mackarness. Biggleswade: Mr. Blaik. Chertsey : Mr. Marnham. Huntingdon: Mr. Whitbread. Enfield: Mr. Branch. Sudbury: Mr. Armstrong. Tunbridge : Mr. Hedges. Maldon: Mr. F. R. Bethell. Melton: Mr. Walker. Pembroke and Haverford West: Mr. Phillips. Bassetlaw : Mr. Frank Newnes. Cirencester: Mr. Essex. Denbigh District: Mr. C. Edwards.

South-western Division of Norfolk: Mr. R. Winfrey. Macclesfield: Colonel Brockelhurst.

Western Renfrew: Coates.

Sir T. Glen

Montgomery: Mr. Rees. Western Perth : Mr. Erskine. Kirkcudbrightshire: Mr. Menicking.

Leominster: Mr. Lamb. Edclisbury: Mr. Arthur Stanley.

UNIONIST GAINS.

St. Andrews: Mr. Gray. Ayr District: Mr. Younger. Oswestry: Mr. Bridgeman. Rye: Mr. G. L. Courthope. Barkston, Ash Division (Yorkshire) : Mr. Lane Fox. London University: Sir P. Magnus. .".'-.

St.. Albans: Mr. Carlile.

UNIONISTS ELECTED. Stamford: Lord John Joicey Cecil. Kingswinford: Mr. H. Staveley Hill. Blackpool: Mr. Ashley. LABOUR GAINS. Northampton, Northern:' Mr. Nicholls. Ince: Mr. Walsh. NATIONALIST GAINS. Tyrone North: Mr. Dodd. MR. CHAMBERLAIN CONFIDENT London, January 19. Mr.. Chamberlain, in acknowledging innumerable congratulations, including some from the colonies, on his election, said his election strengthens his hands and confirms his confidence in the ultimate success of fiscal reform.

(Received January 21, '1.58 p.m.)

London, January 20.

The messages of congratulation reaching Mr. Chamberlain, especially from the colonies, are in excess of any occasion for the last 20 years. THE LABOUR PARTY. London, January 19. The Labour party will elect a leader and Whip. Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, who has been elected as a Labour member for Leicester, in an interview, plainly avowed that the party would keep the Liberals to their pledges concerning social reforms. The party, he said, had never discussed any arrangement with the Irish Nationalists, though he admitted they had mutual sympathy with their respective aims.

THE LIBERALS AND THE CATHOLICS. London, January 19. The Catholic Weekly states that the Irish vote was cast for the Liberals on the distinct understanding that the English Catholic schools would not be injured. • AFRICANDERS JUBILANT. Capetown, January 19. The Afrikander Bond organs are jubilant at the result of the elections, believing it to be antagonistic to Imperialism, and a weakening of English influence in South Africa. AN AUSTRALIAN NATIONALIST Sydney, January 20. Mr. Charles McVeigh, who has been returned for Donegal, is a native of this place, but has long been resident in Sydney. He migrated to New Zealand early in life and ultimately went to Queensland, where he struck it rich in mining. Jle leaves at once for London.