29 FEBRUARY 1908, Page 3

An interesting by-election has been held in the North Division

of Leitrim. Mr. C. J. Dolan, who was returned unopposed as an official Nationalist in 1906, recently resigned his seat on joining the Sinn Fein Party, and stood again on that platform. The result of the polling, declared on Saturday last, was the defeat of Mr. Dolan by 1,946 votes. An element of truly Hibernian humour was not wanting in Mr. Dolan's candidature, inasmuch as he was standing for Parliament as a representative of the policy of abstention from Parliament, his avowed aim being thus the reductio ad absurd ass of the Irish Parliamentary Party.