THE GENERAL ELECTIONS

Bush Advocate, Volume XXI, Issue 93, 17 October 1908, Page 5

THE GENERAL ELECTIONS

FIXivD FOR TUESDAY, NOVEM-

BER 17

rPRESB ASSOCIATION.] WELLINGTON, Yesterday. . The Government has decided that tho general elections shall be held on Tuesday,, November 17.

AUCKLAND, yesterday. At a welcome home, tendered to. the Hon. George Fowlds.by his election committee at Grey Lynn' to-night, some pretty strong talk was indulged in about the forthcoming contest in. that electorate. Mr Fowlds, after deprecating the introduction ©^personalities into the contest, said that his presence in the Cabinet was likely •to /interfere with the interests of- a certain party, and it did mot matter to them who it was stood for the seat so long as it was someone to defeat him. Mr Sexton said that the election was between bribery and corruption on the one hand and the people's interests on the other. Mr C. H. Poole, M.P., was responsible for the statement that in the electorate were to be found political assassins hired and subsidised to kill the moral life of the community. Mr Poole further said: "When No-license comes, this intriguing villainy that is ' honeycombing the politics of this country will be killed for ever."

. DUNEDIN, last night. " It "is understood that Mr J. McDonald, -Mayor.: of Dunedin, has definitely decided to contest Dunedin Central against Mr J. F. Arnold.

WAIPAWA, to-day. Mr A. E. Jull, the Liberal candidate, addressed the largest political meeting held in Waipawa for years. He was accorded an enthusiastic reception. A vote of thanks and confidence was accorded unanimously.