GREAT RALLY OF LIBERALS.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 7039, 29 January 1910, Page 5

GREAT RALLY OF LIBERALS.

ELECTION FINALS IN SIGHT. SUGGESTED COMPROMISE ON THE LORDS, SUMMARY OF RESULTS. -Seats contested ••• ••• ••• "' ~ uncontested ••• ••• ••• "" Total I I 9 Unionist gains ... ••• ~ "' Liberal ~ Labour ~ ... ••■ "■ ' Party representation unchanged In - * 7a PRESENT STATE OF PARTIES. Unionists ... * ... ... ... ••• • 2S * i Liberals ... ... ... ... - ••• 2S * Labour ... ■ *° Nationalists ... ... ... ••• ••• 7 * Total returned ... ©22 Remaining electorates ... ■■• * 8 Total membership ... ... ••• s7 °

(Press Association— Copyright— -Received January 28, 11.6-p.m.)

LONDON, January 28. Further returns of the polling in the general election aro announced: as follow : IN THE PEOVINCES GAINSBOROUGH (LINCS.). Mr G. J. Bentham (L.) ... ... 6178 Captain R. R. Henderson (U.) ... 5873 Liberal majority ... ••• 505 Liberal gain. [Major Benton, late member, was elected as a Liberal in 1906, but went oyer to tho Opposition.] STAFFORD (NORTH-WEST). •Mr Albert Stanley (Lab.) ... 8566 Mr G. Nugent.(lT.).- ... ... 5754 Labour majority ... ... 2812 No change, EYE (NORTH-EAST SUFFOLK). •Mr W. H. M.-Pearson (L.) ... 4991 Lord Graham (U.) ... Liberal majority ... ... 377 No change. SOMERSET (SOUTH, OR YEOVIL). •Sir Edward Stroohey (L.) ... 4955 Hon. Aubrey Herbert (U.) ... 4444 Liberal majority 611 No dhamge. DEVIZES (BAST WILTS.). Mr B. E. Pteto'(U.) ... ... 4709 •Mr F. E. N. Rogers (L-)

Unionist majority ... ... 967 Unionist gain. WISBECH (OAMBS.). Mr Primrose (L.) ... 5279 Mr T. O. Garfitt (U.) ... ...• 5079 .Liberal majority 200 No charage. DERBY (N.E. OR. ECKINGTON). . *Mr William JE. Harvey (L-.) ... 8715 Mr Josiah Court (U.) ... ... 5411 Liberal majority ... ... 2304 No change. CHERTSEY (SURREY). Mr MeMaster (U.) 9G72 Mr Newbolt (L.) 5059 Unionist majority ... .. ... 3613 Unionist gain. CAMBORNE (COiRNWALL). •Mr Albert E. Dunn (L.) ... 5027 Mr Norman Chamberlain (U.) 2587 Liberal majority ... ... ' 2440 No change. HOUGHTON-LE-SPRING (DURHAM). *Mr Robert 'Cameron (L.) ... 10,392 Mr Streatfiald (U-) 4,382 Liberal majority ... ... 6,010 No dhaHge. ■ STROUD (GLOUCESTER). •Mr Charles P. Allen (L.) ... 5285 Mr Clifford (U,.) ; 4962 Liberal majority ... ... 823 No change. * ALTRINCHAM (CHESHIRE). •Sir William' Crossley (L.) ... 8709 Mr Bury <U.) ' ... 7808 Liberal majority 901 No change.. NORFOLK (N.TV; OR FREEBRIDGE). •Sir George White (L.) ... ... 5596 ,Mr Jodrell CU.) 4388 Liberal majority 1208 No change. TAVISTOCK (DEVON). *Mr H. C. FoTvnes-Lu-fctrell (Si.) 6570 Mr John' W. Spear (U.) .... 6343 Liberal majority 227 No change. DURHAM (S.E. OR N. TEES). Mr Hay ward (h.) 9298 •Hon. Frcdk. W. Lambtom (XT.) 6860 Liberal majority 2438 Liberal gain. DARTFORD (N.W. KENT). Mr Mitchell (U.) 9807, *Mr James Rowlands (Lab.) ... 8990 Unionist majority 817 Unionist E&iii. __ BOSWORTH CLEICESTER). *Rt. Hon. Sir- O. B. McLaren, K.C. <Sj.) .». 7709 Mr Fraser (U.) ... 4427 Liberal majority ... ... 3282 No change. SCOTLAND i ABERDEEN (EAST). Mr W. H. Cowan (L.) 6600 Colonel C. R. Burn (U.) 3962 Liberal majority ... ... 2638 No change.

. MIDLOTHIAN (EDINBURGH). •Master of Elißank (L.) ••■••• |062 Hon. M. W. Elphinstono (U.) ... 5427 Liberal majority ... ••• 3635 No change. CLACKMANNAN AND KINROSS. •Rt. Hon. Eugene Wason (L.) 3971 Mr Constablo CU.) ••• - 2703 Liberal majority 1268 No change. CAITHNESS-SHIRE. ♦Mr R. L. Hormsworth (L.) - Mr Strain (U.) 59 ° Liberal majority ... ••• 2053 No change. SUTHERLAND. •Mr A. 0. Morton (L.) ... Cameron of Loohiel (U.) ... 90l Libera;! majority ... .•'■ ...,: 656 No change. ' LANARKSHIRE (NORTH-BAST). Mr T. Wilson (L.) ... ... 9103 Mr Wilson (U.) ... 7012 Mr Sullivan (Lab.) ... ... 2160 Liberal majority 2093 No ohamga. LANARKSHIRE (MID.): Mr Wfaitehouse (L.) 5792 Mr Pickering (IT.) ... Mr Smellio (Lab.) ... ... ... 3864 Liberal majority ... ... 391 No change. IRELAND - TYRONE - (NORTH). •Mr Redmond J. Barry K.O. (L.) 323 S Mr Hordman CU.). 3136 Liberal majority ... ... 'lO2 No change. WESTMEATH (NORTH). •Mr Lawrence Gimmell (Ind. N.) 1996 Mi' McKonna (N.) 1393 • Ind. Nat. majority 603 No change., | WATERFORD WEST. *Mr James J. O'Shea (N.) ... 1751 Mr Ryan (Ind. N.) ~.. ... 1300 Nationalist majority ... , 451 No change. THE NEW PARLIAMENT LIBERAL POSITION BEYOND ASSAULT. NAVAL PROGRAMME. LONDON, January 27. Sir Edward Grey, Secretary of State fox Foreign Affairs, in tihe course of a speech at Hexham, Northumberland, said the elections showed that there would be a British majority ■• for Liberalism, while the Conservative and Tariff Reform party would: bo dependent on the Irish for any chance of ejecting the Government. The decision come to by the Cabinet last Bummer, continued the speaker,, assured that Britain would in March, 1912, have sixteen new ships of a finer and stronger type, than if ordered earlier, and equalling the number in Earl Cawdor's programme. . . SUGGESTED COMPROMISE ON THE QUESTION OF THE LORDS. ' I LONDON, January 28. j "The Times," "Morning Post," and "Daily Telegraph" are discussing a compromise on the question of the Lords. . Liberal members in the new House-of Commons include ninety-three . j ..j churchmen and Nonconformists.