BRITISH ELECTIONS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8039, 29 January 1906, Page 3

BRITISH ELECTIONS.

' LATEST CABLE NEWS. UNITED PBESB ASSOCIATION. —BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. —COPYRIGHT.

FURTHER RETURNS. TRADE UNIONS AND POLITICS. London, January 26, Unionist gain: "Whitby, G. Beckett. Liberal gains: Cliestert)n, E. S. Montague. Stafford North-west. Alfred Bcllson. East Grimstead, C. H. Corbett. Hitchen, Bertram. Richmond, Acland. Dumbarton, White. \\ orccster North, Wilson, (re-elected as a Liberal). Unionist elected: Newark, Starkcy. Liberals elected: Northampton Mid, Manfield.

St. Ives, Cory, Norfolk Mid, Lord Woodehouse, Re-elected: Westbury, Fuller. Argyle, Ainsworth. Barnstaple, Hoares. Aylesbury, Rothschild. Tyrone, South, Russell. Wellington Division of Somerset, Ackland Hood. Petersfield, Nicholson. A thousand female operatives in the Blackburn district have withdrawn from a trade union as a protest against the employment of funds for political purposes. Three thousand operatives at Burnley attended a meeting and ;recoinmended the Weavers' Association to withdraw from the Labor Representation Committee after the poll has closed. No Uuiouist has been elected for | Wales. ELECTIONS ALMOST COMFLETED. GROWING LIBERAL MAJORITY. Received 28, 1.31 p.m. London, January 27. , ./ Elected: Antrim North, Glendining, (Unionist). Skipton, Clough, (Liberal). Re-elected: Kerry East, John Murphy. Newmarket, C. D. Rose. Horsham, Lord Turnover. Aibburton, H. T. Eve. Fife East, H. H. \.sqnith. Addingiou, R. B. Haldane. Liberal gains- Cockermouth, Wilfred Lawsou. Leek, Robert Pearec. Somerset Eastern, Thompson.

LATEST RETURNS. Bcceiyed 2'J, 1.8 a.m. London', January 28. Unionist gaiii-Lowtli Division of Dublin, W. H. Long, 5269; Hazlcton (Nationalist), 3926. Liberal gains—StcrlingsUire, Somerton; Tyneside Division of Norilmmbcrland, Roberton •. Kipon, Lynch; Thornbury, Rendall. Elected HowdenshiucS. Broadlcy (Unionist); Osgold Cross, Pickett (Liberal). "*-" • Ec-elected-CreweJomkiuson; Dorl.'t East, Lyell; Epsom, Keswick; High Peak, Partington; North Ayrshire, Cochrane; Ross and Cromarty, Weir j Evesham, Colonel Long; Buckrose, Luke While; Inverness, Dc var. STATE OF THE PARTIES. deceived 28, 1.31 p.m. London, January 29. The state of the parties now is : Liberals- 352 Unionists u,i Nationalists 83 Labor 50 T. Russell, elected for Tj.'ouc East, declared himself a Liberal. He is "done with the mists of dead Toryism, and worse Landlordism."