The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1880-06-05 00:00:00

ELECTION EXPENSES.

The statement of expenses at the recent election for
the borough of Cockermouth has been issued. On
behalf of Mr. Waugh, the present member, the total
costs were £350 4s. ; those on behalf crf Mr. Webster,
the unsuccessful Conservative candidate, were £437.
Sums of £46 and £32 are included in each case for cost
of cabs and other conveyances.
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At Reading the expenms of Mr. G-. J. Shaw Lefevre,
M.P., Secretary to the Admiralty, and his colleague,
Mr. George Palmer, M.P., amounted to £2,079 9s. 2d.
The expenses of the unsuccessful candidate, Mr.
Sandeman, wore within a few pounds of the above
sum, being £2,072 9s. 3d.
The expenses of the Conservative candidates for
Exeter at the general election amounted to £1,406
each. Those of Mr. Johnson' the successful Liberal
candidate, amounted to £2,620. •
Mr. A. W. Peel's expenses at the Warwick election
amounted to £471 11s. 5d.; and the joint expenditure
of Mr. Repton and Mr. Godson at Warwick amounted
to 12497 2s. 3d.
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The expenses of Mr. V, S. Macliver, M.P., and Sir
th
George Young, Bart., e Liberal candidates for
Plymouth at the general election, amounted to
£2,097 13s. 9d.
The election expenses of the Right Hon. W. E.
Forster, M.P., and Mr. Alfred Illingworth, M.P., the
members for Iradford, amount to nearly £5,400 ; and
the expenses of Sir Henry Ripley, Bart., the defeated
Tory candidate, amount to a little over £4.000.
The expenses of the candidates at the last election
for Birmingham have been formally deposited at the
Town Clerk's offices. The expenses of the Liberal
members amount in all to the sum of £6,067 14s. 7d.,
which includes the following items :—Conveyance of
voters to poll, £594; committee-rooms, canvass-books,
&c.,2799 ; fees to agents canvassers, and clerks, £1,086;
cost of meetings, hire FYI rooms, &c.' £536 ; printing
and advertising, £2,156; stamps, telegrams, &c.,
£114; three-fifths of expenses incurred by returning
officers, £599. The expenses returned on behalf of the
two Conservative candidates, Major Burnaby and the
Hon. A. C. G. Calthorpe, amount to £7,308 3s. 7d.
The following are some of the particulars :—Share of
expenses of returning officer, £399; agents' char.ges,
£1,164; stationery, £324; committee-rooms, £054;
conveyance of voters, £785; postages, &c., £467; can-
vassing and expenses of ward committees, £2,595;
printing, £618; advertising, £399.
At Norwich the joint expenditure of Mr. J. H.
Tillett, M.P. and Mr. J. J. Colman, M.P., was
£1,555. Mr. Harben and the Hon Massy Mainwaring,
the unsuccessful Conservative candidates, expended
no less than £6,494.
The returns of the election expenses incurred by the
candidates at the Bradford election have been pre-
sented to the mayor. The expenses of Mr. W. E.
Forster and Mr. Alfred Illingworth, the successful
Liberal candidates' amounted to £5,373, and those of
Sir H. W. Ripley, the unsuccessful Conservative can-
didate to £4,129.
The expenses of the Liberal candidates at Black-
burn, Mr. Briggs, M.P., and Mr. Molesworth,
amounted to £1,48-6 4s. 10d., and those of the Conser-
vative candidates, Mr. Thwaite and Mr. Coddington,
M.P., to 23,101.
The return of the expenses at the Manchester
election was handed to the returning officer on Tues-
day. The election of the two Liberal members, Mr.
Jacob Bright and Mr. Slagg, cost £10,468, and the
expenses of Mr. Birley, the Conservative who was
elected, and his unsuccessful colleague, Mr. W. H.
Houldsworth, amounted to £10,070.
The expenses of Mr. Armitage and Mr. Arnold,
the Liberal members for Salford, are returned at
£5,5251 10s. 9d. The return furnished by the agent of
the unsuccessful candidates, Sir W. T. Charley and
Mr. 0. 0. Walker, is incomplete and an amended
return is to be made.
The expenses of the candidates at the Sheffield elec-
tion have been filed. Those of the Right Hon. A. J.
Mundella and Mr. Waddy, the Liberal candidates,
amount to £2,542 10s., whilst the expenses of Mr.
Wortley, the Conservative candidate who defeated
Mr. Wacldy, are £4,025 4s. 5d., nearly £1,500 more
than the combined expenditure of the two Liberals.
The candidates' expenses at Chatham were as fol-
lows : Mr. Gerst, Q.C., M.P., Conservative,
£1,404 10s. 7d.; Adinl the Hon. H. C. Glyn, C. 8.,
, Liberal, £3,103 10s. 4d.