WELLING TON ELECTION NOTES.
OSBOM OUE CORBE3PONIHSKT, J V WELLINGTON, November 23. There i& little news in election matters save that a report was current today that at & meeting of the Licensed Victuallers' Association lest night a stxennoos efiorfc was made to secure a block vote for Bell and Dathie; that alter & long discussion the meefcing declined to pledge itself to any block vote a$ aIL The labor party are still at loggerheads as to their vote, which to all ap. pearance will be utterly split up,, and virtually powerless. So far as can be judged, three of the candidates supported hy a large section of the labor part?, viz., Messrs McLean, Eraser, and Winter, ars quite out of the running; Messrs Fiaber and Maodoaald, however, who ace in come degree supported by fcfao labor party, are considered to stand a fair chance in the contest, with Bell and Jellicoa for second and third places on the poll, Mir Duthie being, by common consent, " spotted " as having the best ehaaee of all; hut tola seems to mc to be the merest guesswork, for I do not believe thai a Jiving soul has tfee faintest reliable notion bow the voting Is likely to s* ■■<■■■■"
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Press, Volume XLVIL, Issue 7716, 22 November 1890, Page 5
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