BR TISH POLITICS.

Southland Times, Issue 19722, 24 January 1906, Page 2

BR TISH POLITICS.

NATIONALIST TACTICS. LABOUR’S LEVER. Per United Press Association. By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright. LONDON, Jan. 22. Wishing to strike at the father through ,i the son, .the Nationalists have directed one thousand Irish voters iu Midlothian to vote against Lord Dalineny, eldest son of Lord Rosebery. The devolutionists in Dublin South oppose Mr Long, and prefer the Nationalist candidate. The Labourites attribute their success to systematic reorganisation after the Taff Vale judgment against trades' unionism, ELECTIONS. Romford (Essex) ; J. H. Bethell (L.) 21,531; Sinclair (C.) 12,679. Liberal gains : Stowmarket : Hardy. Knutsford : A. J. King. Reigate ; Crodic. Elected ; Down East ; Craig (Unionist), defeating Wood (Uussellite). Launceston : 0. Marks. Re-elected : Chippenham (Wilts) : Sir J. Dickson-Poyndor (C.). Banff: A. W r . Black (L.). W'ansbeck, Northumberland : C. Fenwick (L.). Saffron Walden, Essex : Joseph A. Pease ; Forfar ; John Sinclair (L.). Kincardine : J. W, Crombiu (L.).

LONDON, Jan. 23. Received 23rd, 9.18 p.m. Liberal gains—-Derby South 1 Raphael ; Harrow : Gibb. Labour gain—Gorton : Hodge. Re-elected—Accrington : Lee so (Liberal). Elected—Leigh : J. F. Hrunner. STRENGTH OF PARTIES. Liberals ■... 267 Labour 43 Nationalists 77 Unionists ... 115 THE HOPES OP THE BOER. CAPETOWN, Jan. 23. Received 23rd, 9.26 p.m. Mr Steyn, speaking at Dcwetsdorp, on the occasion of the reinterment of some burghers killed in (he war, urged the others to remind their children of the sufferings of the concentration camps. He thanked God that there was a new Government in Britain which would do justice to the Boers. HAPPY YET HALF AFRAID. LONDON, Jan. 23.

Received 23rd, 11.14- p.m. Sir H. C.-Bannerman, speaking at Larbert, said ho was delighted that the old delusion that the Unionists were the special guardians of the agric'ultural interests and the particular friends of the farm labourer had been knocked on the head. With their tremendous disproportion of power he confessed that the Liberals would have enormously increased responsibilities of government. AN EX-RADICAL’S OPINION. Mr Chamberlain, speaking at Halesowen, admitted that he had not expected anything like such a political revolution. Tariff reform had been postponed' but was not yet dead and would yet be acknowledged to be the only political remedy for the distress confronting English trade and workmen. The elections had been one huge radical log-rolling operation.