LOCAL NOTES.

Press, Volume LIX, Issue 11414, 27 October 1902, Page 6

LOCAL NOTES.

On tho main roll for tho electorate of Christchurch there will be 17,500 names. The. main roil prepared for the last general election contained 17,683 name*. The total number of electors on the roll at last general election waa 20,750, and the number who recorded their votes was 16,320. Advance sheets of the main roll, now being printed, up to the letter S, can be seen at the office of the Registrar of Electors. Advance sheets of the Avon and Riccarton rolls may be seen at the office of the Registrar of Electors for Christchurch, who halt also a copy of the main roil of the Lyttelton electorate at his office for the convenience of the electors of that district who reside on the city side of the hills. Under the new Electoral Act the writ* are returnable within twenty-one days from the day of issue. Nominations of candidates are to be in the hands of the Returning Officer not later than five o'clock of the afternoon of the seveuth day before the day appointed for the poll. The- Returning Officer for Christchurch (Mr A. Martin t clerk of the Magistrate's Court) has commenced to make arrangements for the polling booths/ It is not • anticipated tha. there will be many alterations mad- in, tho piling places which were Appointed for tbe last general election. The Registrar of Electors for Christ- * church (Mr I*. C. Willioms) states that it should be made clear that a person can only be on one roll, and, with one exception, that roll must be the roll of the district in which the elector re-ides. The exception in in the case where a person still retains , the property qualification acquired when such quaUficfttloris were allowed. If, however, a person who has been on the roll for such qualification and has been struck off for not voting, he cannot be put on the toll again for such qualification. Thus a person who is on the Avon roll in respect to a property qualification, but resides in Timans, can vote only in Avon; if he wishM to vote in Timaru ha requires to have his name struct off the Avon roll and St on the Timaru roll. It is estimated it there are not five hundred persons on tbe Christchurch roll in respect to propetty . q ualificntion. The following candidates will speak tonight:—Mr Bnddo, *i Cust; Mr Witty, at McFadden's HaH; Mr Lewis, Weedons; M<r Fotbe., Cntverdenj Mr Hardy, Anna.; Mr Renme. Halswell ; Mr Hassoll, atSvcannanoa; Mr Ives*, at Kyle. . Mr C. Taylor will meet hi» friends and supporters to-night at, the Druids' Hall, - Sydenham, i Mr \V. W. Collins will address the.lee-

tors at the Waitham School to-night. Tha friends a,nd supporters o! Mr T. E Taylor will aneeb at the Methodist Schoolroom, Addingtori, to-night. -.' Mr Butherford speaks at thfl Town Hall, Seftorr, on Wednesday, and at tho Ashley School on Thursday. > . Mr O. W. Russell will «peak at the Papa-mi Church School to-morrow, st eight, ' The friends and.supporters of Sir (J. J. Smith will meet to-morrow .veiling ai the Druids' Hall, Sydenham, at 8 p.m. Mr A. Loughrey, who ia a candidate for the Avon aeat, will address the electors at the New Brighton Hal. to-morrow night. Mr J. Ivess- addressed a meeting of the Selwyn electors at the Barr Hill School'bou»« on Friday last. Although the weather wan anything but favourable, about thirty-five electors attended. Mr J. Bishop occupied the chair. The candidate was tendered a vote- of thanks, on the mot-ion of Mr J. Connell, seconded by Mr John Brick. Mr J. Brunt's friends and suppoj-ter. will meet .to-morrow night in the Linwood Hall. Mr A. W. Rutherford addressed thirtyfive electors in the Schoolroom, Omihi, on Thursday night, Mj* Luscombe being in the chair. On Friday night Mr Rutherford spoke at Waipara to thirty electors. Mr Hayward being in the chair. He received votes of -tianks <«, both places. On Friday «venh.g Mr Recce addressed T^t/if?. 01 " 8 of Amuri in the Culverden !.«:•» ° T * r fift - v v * ro present. Mr ioHull was chairman, and a vote of rhaijks was accorded Mr Recce for his address. Mr Rennie. at Rpringston, stated, in reply to a question, that l* would not supTort the bare majority at the licensing pot!.