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Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXV, Issue 12983, 26 January 1910, Page 5

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SUMMARY. Total number of seats 670 Total returned 531 ■ Returns to come ..... 159 PRESENT POSITION. Unionist gains 110 Liberal gains .......... is PRESENT STATE OF PARTIES. Liberals 205 ; Labour' .. ...... 32 Nationalists ..... 68 Unionists 226 i JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN’S POPULARITY. Press Association.—Telegraph.—Copyright. LONDON, January 25. Mr Joseph Chamberlain, while voting in East Worcestershire, was warmly "received by the people. A PRESS OPINION. LONDON, January 25. Tlie Westminster Gazette says.that the cleavage between the north and the south, and between the industrial and rural districts, will require courageous handling if the country is to escape a long period of strife and unrest. The people are ready for a statesmanlike reconstruction of the second chamber which will be in harmony with the- representative, institutions, but opposed to a single chamber. The reconstruction of the Constitution is essentially a task calling for the co-operation of the moderates of both parties. Many Unionists are pledged to a modification of the hereditary basis. They acknowledge that their opponents have a real grievance against the Lords,. A Parliamentary deadlock and a. schism between the classes is threatened if the fortunes are to be trusted to '-he more heated partisans.

SPEECH BY MR BALFOUR. The Conservatives’ Policy. Immense Accretion of Naval Strength. Tariff Reform inevitable. LONDON, January 25. Mi' Balfour, Leader of the Unionists, speaking, at Paddington, said that if the Conservatives were called upon to manage the country’s affairs they would insist upon an immense • accretion of naval strength, and so put all fears of war, invasion, interference with commerce, and diplomacy aside for ever. The .Opposition did not desire to draw matters of great national and imperial moment into the party vortex. He added:—

“I would give anything to find machinery whereby the Navy# could be put above Party, but'a democracy is only governed by organised parties, and it is impossible to put any problem entirely above party. ■ The Budget was not going to give .money even for a starved navy. It is more certain than ever, to my mind, that tariff reform is absolutely inevitable.” ~ FURTHER RETURNS. LONDON, January 25. _ High Peak.—O. Partington (L.) 5912, Wood (U.) 5806. As previously. Kincardine.—Captain H. C. Murray CL ) 3927, Pearson (U.) 1891. . /TT 3 \° r i ar ’~ Falco ? er ( L -) 6789, Blackburn (U.) 4284. Previously L. . J lint VT L ® wis ( L ') 6610 > Howard (U.) 4454, Previously L. \ / Merioneth.— A. Osmand Jones (L.) 6065, Morris (U.) 1873. As previously. Launceston.—G. C. Marks (L.) 4703 Grysies (U.) 3564. As previously. yo?£ Utl i?° rt -~ White ( U -) 7637 ’ Edrst (L.) 7218. Previously U. • , , v ' Hey wood-Crawky (L.) 5809, Captain Previously L Tottenham.—Percy Alden (L.) 12,302. 7So7 d w V m I B7, Gorton Hodge (Lab.) 7807, White (U.) 7334. Previously L. Kerry East.—Sullivan (1.N.) 2643, Murmember. Mui * hy was the

the latest returns. tj LONDON, January 25 Bassetlow—-Williams (Unionist) 5634, Newnes (Lrbera!) 52 9 °. Previously L. .; 0 7r C -V af]e ,r^ lley (Unionist) 7389, MasSle -D _ Ee i^ t e_ r Lieut.-Col. Rawson (Unionist) 8339, Brodie^(Liberal) 5715. Previously L. ,v H ‘ Yerrali (Unionist) 5702, Eos© (Liberal) 4632. Previously L. Egremont—Grant (Unionist) 4060, Fullerton (Liberal) 3949. Previously L. . Wellington, Shropshire—C. G. Henrv (Liberal) 4673, Wood (Unionist) 3484 As previously. „ ' T . S i; .AusteU—Rohartes (Liberal) 6225 tt (Unionist) 3138. As previously. Harrow— Deeley (Unionist) 16,761, Harris (Liberal) 13,575., Previously L.

election NOTES. "ANYTHING FOE A CHANGE.” The craze for, something by wav of n.' change, even a jump from the frying-pan in -the; result. of. the Fulham election. Fulham is one 'i5 0n boroughs, and is largely inhabited by working men. I n 1906 Mr M (L,b ” al ) won it from Mr William ; Hayes Fisher, the sitting Conservative member, by 8037 to 7407 n majority of 670. Mr Davies, did not ’Jo up for re-election,, and, his i place- was taken by Captain Fitzroy Hemphill, brotiier of, and heir presumptive to, the 2nd Baron Hemphill. Captain Hemphill, who hails from Galway, is ; s a barrister, i vlio , hi,s been a prominent member of the .County Council for-nine years. A Eadica! in poHtics, he had reached the ■distinbtmm. iif being appointed chairman ot ;i the .Political Committee of the Na-

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tional liberal Clqlp , The Unionist candidate: wa's again Mr Hayes Fisher.- When Mr Davies displaced him in 1906, Mr Fisher represented the division "for 21 years, and had been, among other things, a Junior Lord of the Treasury, a Ministerial Whip, and the Financial Secretary to the Treasury. When the present contest began Mr Fisher was away in Colombo, and his Radical opponent had a good start of him in that most effective of all campaigning work, the personal appeal. The Conservative papers anticipated, however, that the question of unemployment, re-acting on the minds of workers, would counterbalance that disadvantage and produce a Tory victory. They estimated the result correctly, for the Liberal majority of 670 four years ago is now converted in a minority of 1929, and, come well, come ill, the electors have the satisfaction, of knowing that they have made a change.