THE NEW PARLIAMENTS.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 5804, 23 January 1906, Page 5

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ROUT OF THE UNIONISTS. TWO-THIRDS of thf, nkw house ELECTED. ABSOLUTE MAJORITY FOR THE liberals. Til 1C VOICE OF LABOUR. (Received January 22, 11 p.m.) LONDON. January 22. The Liber:;!.; continue to meet with great success at the polls. The late.-A returns are an follows; LIBERALS. KK-KLZtIEJ AFTER CONTEST. .Mr D. Lloyd-George (President of tho Board of Trade). Carnarvon. Mr Lloyd-Genrge, now in he • :tyt bird ve il-, a lav.yer by p; oe.-Moll, lira entered Parliament in ISWO, when lie was cho-en by Carnarvon in preference to the ('on.-ervutivc candidate by a majority oi Jib) votes. During tho hot b.uv years he lues bivii one o: .Mr chamberlain's mo-t imeompromi- in;.-, opponent.'. lie laus also been; oru- oi the chief organisers of tho \lelsh revolt against tho Education .tel. Mr J. 3. llighani. Sowerhy divi ion of Yorkshire, head of tho firm oi Iligham Bros., cotton spinners, cxMayor of Accrington, a member of the Lancashire County Council, member of tho Congregational Church, and a strong temperance advocate. Mr Arthur IV. Soames, Norfolk South. •Mr SouincM, 'who is an architect, hut has retired from practice, un-succiv-sfully contested Ipswich in 1392 ami 181)5. lie defeated tho Conservative candidate for Norfolk South in 1900 by -12 U votes. Mr i'. R. Whittaker, Spoil Valley envision of Yorkshire, chairman and managing director of (ho Life Insurance Insiitntir.n. and a contributor on economic questions to reviews. Ho is c leading temperance advocate, and has sat for .Span Valley for fourteen years. Air Lewis V. llarcourt, Rocondale division of Lancashire, eldest surviving son of tho late Sir William liarcourt. and for some years intimately connected with the work of Liberal organisation. He was returned unopposed at a by-election in 1901. Mr J. Ellis Griffith. Anglesey, barrister. and ex-Prosident of tho Cambridge Union. Ho was first elected as member for Anglesey in 1895. Mr Corrie Grant, Rugby division of Warwickshire. Mr Grant, who is a barrister, was one <■’ the founders of tho Mumcinai i: 'form League, was for "-I yenm the committee of the __ London Libera' rind Radical Cnfrc, —i -as chairman from its foundation in 1893 until the middle of 1900 of the executive of the Progressive School Board Election Council. Mr L. Atherloy-Joncs. North-west Durham, which constituency ho has represented since 1885. Ho is a King's Counsel. Mr F. L; Cawley Prestwick division of Lancashire, where he was first returned in 1895. Ho is a bleacher and calico printer. Air George Whiteley, Pndsoy division of Yorkshire. In 1893 Mr Whitelcy was elected for Stockport in the Conservative interest, but objected strongly to the agricultural rating legislation of the Government, and in 1899, when a bill was brought forward for the partial relief ol rates of clerical tithe-payers, ho offerer! to resign. Leading Conservatives of Stockport induced him to remain as an independent member, and in 1900 Pndsey returned him as a Liberal. Mr J. A. Jacoby. Mid-Dorbysbire a constituency ho has represented for twenty yearn. Mr Jacoby is a lace manufacturer, and is president of the Nottinghamshire Chamber of Commerce. UNIONISTS AND CONSERVATIVES. RE-ELECTED AFTER CONTEST. Lieutenant-Colonel A. R. M. Lockwood, Epping division of Essex, formerly of the Coldstream Guards, from which he retired in 1883. Ho was unopposed in 1000. Mr A. Baldwin, Bawdier division of Worcestershire. Ho was first elected in 1892. and was unopposed at tho last election. Right Hon. A. Akers-Douglas, St. Augustine's division of Kent. Sir Douglas sat for East Kent from 1880 to 1885, and has since represented St. Augustine's. Ho was Home Secretary in tho Balfour Government. At tho election of 1900 ho was unopposed. Sir P. A. Muntz, Tamworth division of Warwickshire. He has represented Warwickshire constituencies since 1881. Sir P. A, Muntz is managing director of Muntz’s Metal Company. He has taken great interest in, agriculture, and is a loading breeder of shire horses and Shropshire Down sheep. He was unopposed in 1900. Colonel W. Hall Walker, Widncs division of Lancashire. Colonel Walker, who was first elected in 1900, when ho defeated the Liberal candidate by 2651 -otes, is an all-round sportsman, and has won many yachting and horse races. Ho is managing director of a brewing firm in Liverpool. Colonel O. E. Wande, Medway division of Kent, for which constituency he has sat since 1892. He was in the seventies aide-de-camp to tho Governor of Gibraltar. Ho was unopposed in 1900. NATIONALISTS. RE-ELECTED rNOITOSED. Air E. Barry, South Cork. Mr Barry, a. farmer, has sat for South Cork since 1892. Ho is chairman of the Clonakilty Board of Guardians. Afr W. Del.iuy, Ossory division of ■ Queen's County. A farmer and a j member of tho Rural District CJotin- 1 oil. Mountmullick. Afr Dehmy was | returned for Ossory in 1990 without opposition. Ho took oart in the foundation of tho United Irish League in his county. Air James O’Alara, Kilkenny South. Air O'Mara, then in his twentyseventh year, was elected without opposition in 1900. Ho is a pro-

virion march. nt. a member of the Homo am! Foreign Produce Kx<:i:',!u;c. Liinltisl. ami treasurer of the Limerick branch of the Unii'-.i Irish 1 >e;u;ue. Mr John O'Donnell, South Mayo. Mr O’Donnell, who was elected without opposition in 1909. is thirty-six years oi age. He was the first organiser of the United Irish League, and is secretary to the Directory of the League. Ho has been nruscciied by the Government six times, and imprisoned on several occasions. He is a strong supporter of educational reionn in Ireland. Mr O’Donnell is editor and proprietor of the “Connaught Champion.’’ Mr Kendal O'Brien. Mid-Tipperary, who was liret elected in 1900. He is a farmer, and wait active in the promotion of the Lind and Natiunal Leagues. In 1899 he was made a J.P. of hie county, ex officio as chairman of a District Connell, but was deprived m* !i‘k commission hv the Lord Chancellor owing to a speech which ho delivered expressing sympathy with tho Boers. In 1901.’however, bo was once more restored to the cominiss'on of the jieaee without withdrawal of the speech referred to. Air Hugh A. Law. Donegal West, which eoristitueiKV be has represented since 1902. * Ho is a son of a former Lord Chancellor of Ireland, who was ono of tho very highest authorities on the Irish land question. Air Law is a Protestant. THE STATE OF PARTIES. liberals maintain their. MAJORITY. (Received January 22, 10.5 p.m.) LONDON. January 2-. Over two-thirds oi the members of the new House of Commons are now elected. Tho state of parties at tho present stage is as follows: Liberals 253 Unionists 11l Nationalists ... ... ” Labourites H THE LIBERAL DELUGE. AND A MOUNT ARARAT. GOOD REARGUARD ACTION URGED. (Received January 22, 9.10 p.m.) LONDON January 22. Air Austen Chamberlain, lato Chancellor of the Exchequer, speaking at Worcester. said the tariff reformer,had found a Alount Ararat at Birmingham. They would rest until tho flood .subsided, and then people tho country witli Unionist ideas. Speaking at Wellington, Air Joseph Chamberlain appealed to thcAO constituencies where tho polling lias not yet taken place to fight a good rearguard action, collect their scattered forces, and prevent tho defeat becoming a rout. BRITAIN AND HER COLONIES. AIMS OF THE LABOUR PARTY. THE FISCAL ISSUE. LONDON, January 22. Air AlacDomild, AI.P., secretary of tho Labour Representation Committee, interviewed as to tho attitude of tho coming Labour party, said“Labour’s groat immediate object is to get an understanding with Labour and Democratic parties in tho colonics, in order to protect the Empire against tho British Jingo classes. Our motto* will bo 'The preservation of tho Empire, in tho interests of peace, and democratic justice all round.”’ Mr Asquith, Chancellor of the Exchequer, speaking nt Langbauk, Renfrewshire, said tho Government intended to give the Transvaal and Orange River Colonics tho earliest possible management of their internal affairs. Tf wo left tho colonics absolute fiscal freedom, retaining tho same freedom,” said film Chancellor, “there would ho no risk of serious friction either between tho Alothorland and tho colonies or between one dependency and another.” THE PREMIER AND THE IRISH PARTY. SPEECH BY AIR T. P. O’CONNOR. , T LONDON, January 21. In a speech at Hcywood, Air T P O’Connor momtor for tho Scotland tIL vision of Liverpool, stated that a uocrot treaty existed between Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman and Air Rod. mond to enable Ireland to attend to its own roads, build its own harbours, control its education, and restore four thousand evicted within two years Irish aspirations would thus bo complied with, and Irish wrongs redressed. THE VOTING ANALYSED. LONDON, January 22. o . l>3orver estimates that •1id.133 votes in Great Britain wore cast for Chambcrlainism, 1,008,079 for Air Ball our, and 2,987,705 for free trade, including -109,025 for Labour, ns agwnst <7,286 Labour votes cast in lytAj. CONGRATULATIONS FROM RUSSI \ CT. PETERSBURG, January 22. Tho^ Congress of Constitutional Democrate in St. Petersburg has telegraphed to Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman and Mr John Burns congratulating them on the result of the British elections.