The General Election.

Bush Advocate, Volume XIV, Issue 185, 3 November 1902, Page 2

The General Election.

THE WAIPAWA SEAT. ;

TWO CANDIDATES IN THE FIELD. i The information recently forwarded to us by our Pahiatua correspondent, to the effect that Mr James Taylor (Mayor of Wbodville) would be a candidate for the Waipawa seat was correct, as the latter gentleman has now definitely decided, to contest the seat. Mr Taylor will stand as an. Independent Liberal, and is opposed to Mr Seddon: \: A message forwarded to us to-day from ■WoodviUe states that Mr Taylor will arrive:in Dannevirke to-morrow to make arrangements for delivering addresses in this town and other parts of the electorate,,

-PEB PJRESS ASSOCIATION.

■ . •■•■"' Hawera, Nov. 1. At a njeeting of , the - Temperance Party, replies Ware received from Messrs Major and McGuire, candidates for the Hawera seat, both of wboni subscribe in every particular to the Alliance platform. This leaves the Temperance electors. a free haDd. .; k •.. -.. , AspBUBTON, Octj 31. Albert Ager, a candidate for the Ash" burton seat, addressed a meeting tonight. '. He declared himself a strong 'supporter of the Government, and received a vote of thanks/ . •' ' i\ 1 I , NAPiEBi This day£ I' .The- political campaign, so far ; as Bay. is concerned, was. opened, on" Saturday night by Mr D. Whyte, mentioned as a probable candidate for j the Hawke's Bay seat. He announced himself as a supporter of the present Government, but the greater part of hi* address consisted of an advocacy of a light line, railway from Hastings -to Waiwera. He was accorded a vote of thanks. : • ' " j While Mr Lough rey was addressing the electors at Linwood a man named Hunter put a question, of a personal nature, and the candidate replied :— "You want a clip iv the ear. "— (Ap-i plause.) A Voice: "That is not Parliamentary. " — (Laughter.) Mr Lougbrey : "No, but ifc is true, "t- - Mr Hunter: " The attack is quite unjustified, aud I challenge you to do anything to me outsid«, small and all as I am. " Under the new Electoral Act the writs ate returnable within tweuty-oue days from the duy of issue. Nominations of candidates are to be in the hands Of tfce returning officer not later than five o'clock oftlio afternoon of the seventh day before the day appointed for the poll.