THE FEDERAL ELECTIONS.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXI, Issue 12062, 5 January 1907, Page 5

THE FEDERAL ELECTIONS.

Press Association.— Telegraph.— Copyright. Received January 5, 9.48 a.m. ADELAIDE, January 4. A recount of the Senate votes resulted in Vardon, an anti-Socialist, beating Crosby, a Labour Socialist, by a narrow majority for the third seat. Labour's Defeat in Queensland. BRISBANEI, January 5. Ex-Senator Higgs, in a letter tO'-Jnc newspaper Worker, gives, amongst other reasons for the defeat of the Socialist Party in Queensland more lavish expenditure of money than in any previous election. It came from the rich shareholders of rings and trusts, which are threatened by tho Labour platform, and from men whom it pays to contribute thousands of pounds to keep out of Parliament the representatives of tlfe "masses. SYDNEY, January 5. Senator St. Leper, interviewed, claimed that the splendid women's vote won the anti-Socialists' victory in Queensland.

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