QUEENSLAND ELECTIONS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2084, 20 May 1907, Page 2

QUEENSLAND ELECTIONS.

Press Association —Copyright. Received May 19, 12.57 p.m. BRISBANE, May 19. The elections for the State Assembly yesterday were favored with fine weather. Interest ran high, one feature being the excellent service done ■by women workers for the - various candidates. The returns up to this morning show that the State parties are approximately : Ministerial, 24; Opposition, 28; Labor, 28. There however, a lot of postal votes still to come in, and one or two seats remain in the balance, notably Herbert, where Sir A. S. Cowley, Speaker of the late Assembly, may jbe defeated by a Laborite, and Flinders, where Mr. Airey, Home Secretary, may give plaoe to a Laborite. All the other Ministers are apparently safe. >•’

Mr. Kidston was returned by a big majority. A surprise was the defeat of Mr. Tolrnie, a Morganite, who, went over to the Philp party. Ex-Senator Drake who contested North Brisbane will forfeit his de-' posit. The Opposition secured ten out. of thirteen seats in the Metropolitan area, but did not do so well in the country. An outstanding feature is the loss sustained by the Labor party which in last Parliament * numbered 35. Generally speaking Mr. Kidston’s party is stronger, mostly at the expense of Labor. A continuance of the three-party system .is imperative as it is impossible for Mr. Kidston to cari-y on without the support of the Opposition or the Labor party.