The Gisborne Times. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1911 Notes and Comments.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3142, 11 February 1911, Page 6

The Gisborne Times. PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1911 Notes and Comments.

Out of the six hundred and seventy members returned to New House of the House of ComCommons. mons as the result of the late election, only forty-nine were fresh to Parliamentary honors. This interesting fact is revealed by a careful examination which the “Glasgow Herald” has made of the polling returns. "Statistics are not, it says, available to show how this compares with previous elections, but the recollections of an experienced Parliamentarian is that the figure is unprecedentedly low. The new members, it appears, are distributed among tho parties as follow -Unionist, 21; Liberal, IS; Labor and Socialist, 4; Nationalist, 3; Independent Nationalist, 2; Independent Unionist, 1. Apart from these there are between 40 and 50 members who renew acquaintance- with St. Stephen’s after varying periods of absence. It will bo seen, therefore, that all except, roughly, 100 members of the new House of Commons sat . in the brief 1910 Parliament. According to the “Herald,” the Unionists have good reason to’ congratulate themselves on the calibre of their recruits, who, there is every reason to believe, will prove valuable acquisitions to the debating strength of the party in the House. Mr. W. M. Aitken, who won Ashton-under-Lyne from the Liberals, is a personal friend of Mr. Bonar Law, and considered .by many competent judges little inferior to him as an incisive debater. Mr. Aitken, who is still on the sunny side of forty, is reputed to he a millionaire. His business interests are centred in the castiron trade. Mr. H. Ingleby, who deprived Mr. Bowles of his seat at King’s Lynn, is the son of the well-known Shakespearean critic, Mr. C. M. Ingleby. Warrington sends to the House Mr. Harold Smith, a younger brother of Mr. F. E. Smith, the member for the Walton Division of Liverpool, who has made many brilliant speeches both in the House and out of it. Mr. Harold’s admirers consider him to he the equal of his brother as a speaker. A barrister cerium of a welcome from tlio Unionists at Westminster is Mr. Leslie Scott, the victor in the Exchange Division of Liverpool. He is an authority on maritime law, and takes a great interest in the movement for its international unification. Mr. C. A. Barlow, the winner of South Salford, held in the last Parliament by Mr. Belloc*, the author, is a son of the late Dean of Peterborough, an expert. on educational questions. As to the Liberal and Labor Freshmen, most of the new-comers on the Liberal side have alreadv won their spurs in the political field, although the misfortunes of warfare have hitherto denied them admittance to the House of Commons. Mr. A. Richardson, whose success in Peckham was one of the notable _ Liberal victories ill London, is, according to a friendly critic, “a thorough. Radical.” In business he is a City solicitor with a large practice. “It will,” adds the “Glasgow Herald.” “he quite like old times to have again on the Liberal benches a member bearing the name of Si#AVilfrid Lawson. The present Baroifiet succeeded to the title four years ajfo. Mr. AY. S. Glyn Jones, ‘the gallfnt little AY el sh man ’ —to quote the Chancellor of the Exchequer’s descripfnn of his compatriot—enters the flouse with all the prestige of a menijber who has achieved victory under difficult circumstances. Once a chemist in Poplar, he is now a successful barrister.”