NEW SOUTH WALES ELECTIONS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 10586, 15 October 1910, Page 4

NEW SOUTH WALES ELECTIONS.

VICTORY FOR LABOR

[By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.]

(Per Press : Association

Received October 14, at 10.20 p.m. -^ ~ • -* Sydney, October "I£ - *. The weather is hue and the polling generally was heavy. All parties show-. Ed extreme activity. ; ' \ - Hundreds of vehicles of nil sjirts wjsrq presstfd'intb "service. ' -''| '* ,".-*■ . There was a "rush when the uootbs were opened, and ihe voting was steady throughout ,the day. There was another rush towards the close so that the booths were crowded. Numbers put ott -their voting till the. last miriute, and many were shut but.' '■' , , .., \ Women showed.'' increased- ; interest, and recorded their votes more freely thau at the previous election. ' ' The returns are coming m slowly". The early figures show that the Liberals are fairly holding their own. ! "When the last Parliament was dissolved the state of parties was:—Liberal 53, Labor 37. . -., Mr K-eegan (Labor) defeated Air Hogue (Minister of Education) at Glebe. Mr Osborne (Labor) defeated Mt Oaks (Honorary Minister) at-Paddiiigton. Labor also won the King Division ol the city from the Liberals. - Mr M'Gowen defeated his Liberal opponent bv neaily three to one. The Liberals lost three more seats— Marrickville, Surrey Hills, and Newcastle—to Labor. Mr Moore (Minister of Lands) looks like suffering defeat at Dmgara. , Other Ministers are apparently fairly safe, but the bulk of the country returns are very incomplete. Enormous crowds surround the newspaper offices watching the posting of returns, cheering arid counter-cheering as the numbers go ,up. ', . The latest returns, including probables, are: Labor 35, Liberals 30, and Independent Liberal 1. - Several other scats are m the* balance, while the bulk of the others are so incomplete as to make it 'impossible to forecast the result. The indications point to Labor securing several further victories in tho country.' Moorish, who captured King, Sir U. 11. lleid's old seat, is .what is known as a Continental Socialist.' , " ' , Sir James Graham's defeat for Surrey Hills robs the Liberals ol a prominent supporter. : " " ''-■ Mr Bruntell, elected ior Annandale, is secretary "to the New South Wales Alliance. - '

Received October 15, at 113 a.m. : -' - Sydney, October 14. The latest returns are. Labor, 44; Liberal, 38. Received Octobei 15, at 920 a.m _ Sydney, October 10. On the piesent figures, though in a few cases latei letums mav possibly alter the state of aflans, tub Herald Fives the state of the pailies m the new House as! follows —Labor 4/; Liberals, 13 The 'Tologiaph forecast is —Laboi, 16, Liboiak, -11 Laboi lost only one seat The Liberals lcgamod Uppei Hunter, while to then pievious oaptmos Labor added Macquaiuc, Namn.oi, Murine", and defeatpd ih Mcoip, Mimstpi of Lands, at Dmgaia. It appeals coitain > that Mr Hogue lias been defeated b\ Hip nanow raa]Oiii\ of 136 . . Second ballots will he leqmrod in Noith Sydnev and piobabl\ two other eh'ctoiates, in all of "which Independent Libeials split the vote The Rev. Carloid, who icplaccd the Liberal candidate foi Wamckvillo. is an ex-Congre-gational minister Received October 10, at 10 5 a.m. Sjdncj, October 15. At a late hour " last night Mr M'Gowen and other Labor leaders addressed a great gathenng outside the Worker newspaper office. The speeches were enthusiastic over Labor's success. Received October 15, at 10.30 a.m. Svndev, October 15. The He aid sa\ s" it is clear the Wade iMmisti\ has lost its majoi ity, but it is not so cleai that Mi M'Gowancan foim a MimstiV without serious difficulties If a Laboi Government !S formed it will have to depend more or less on Liberal support. Tins means it will have to. endure a season ot manceuvring a three-party system with Liberalism practically calling the tune. The Telegraph declares that the election merely "emphasises/that vague feeling that is now manifesting itself in this and other communities and grading them -into" wild"paths of experiment, the end of which neither they nor anyone else can. discern..

THE OPTION POLL Sj dnej, October 14 The local option returns are extiemely backward, and it will probably be days befoie tyiej aie complete The returns aie so small that they do not form an index of the tuie position In six they favoi reduction, m 14 others, chiefly about the city, tliej faioi continuance. The latter lesult was expected. It is reported that Petcisham has can ied no-license

The Peteisham repoiL was piematuie, foi later figities show that the electoiate earned reduction only, but neaily all the license votes aie <=o incomplete that it ig impossible to saA anything really definite Allownes' latest leturns make it appear that it carried nolicense, but a complete count may alter this

The city electorates lemain tine to continuance, and 111 the snbiubs kuown as the working men's .subuibs there appears on the present showing to be a piepondciance 111 the same diiectiou Reduction is holding its own in the residential suburbs, but on the whole no-liconse does not appeal to have advanced to the extent its supporters anticipated The party is hopeful that the complete leturns will place them 111 a bottei position One leatuie appears to bo the stiaightei cleavage between continuance and no-license, and there aie less votesfoi 1 eduction