The result of the election at Poplar, where a vacancy
was caused by Sir Sydney Buxton's resignation on his appoint. meet as Governor-Gengpal of South Africa, was made known on Friday week, the Liberals holding the Beat, though by a greatly reduced majority. The figures were : Mr. A. W. Teo (Liberal), 3,548; Mr. R. Kerr Clark (Unionist), 3,270; Mr. J. Jones (Labour and Socialist), 893. In the four elections held in the last fourteen years the Liberal majority has ranged from 1,047 to 2,311. As compared with December, 1910, the result showed an increase in the electorate of 801, an increase in the total poll of 1,531, an increase of the Unionet poll of 1,122, and a decrease in the Liberal poll and the Liberal majority of 429 and 1,551 respectively. Mr. Yee, as a native and an ex-Mayor of Poplar, was a strong candidate, and he was probably right in saying that be won because he was a Poplar man. As a whole-hearted supporter of the whole policy of the Government be came very near losing the seat.
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