THE COMING ELECTIONS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 312, 26 September 1908, Page 5

THE COMING ELECTIONS.

MR FJTZGEISALR AT WOI?SBR ?AY. Mr. J, B. Eitzgoralfl last night, address,ed a $ 'Wwser N. $pli |na chai(\ "speaker $eatt with apd tfs pi'oppscid tyj tho Cpnciljatjori and 'Arbitration .Apt, adypcqtiuß the tipti flf w ?Ppkp on tho' industrial progress of I\piv Zealaiid and sue} mitliiied v, bs%4;-, for tl\a Se.vprql questions v(o\a asked aijil mineral by tlip speaker, ,ai\d 4 $0- pid' of tho hp w;as accqrifyd a hearty ypte pf thank's af(d cpnfi.dpnce, prop.psed by Mr. N. and by' J(r, W. Allpprt. A .cprn'mitfap wi\s aafc' up to. .further thp Candida jo's interests. Mr.'"Willjam M'Leap, panijidate.for- TYel-. lingt'pfl $ast, addressed a meeting of tlio at' the. Mission Hfalj, Tqvy S.tfeet, tyif pypning. ft{r. Mobro occupied thp chair, p4' tner° was a good attpndaflpe'.' ' ppjdidat? spqko for about an hp\;r on lines similar tp: the' address given in p%r parts' pf' e\oo(orato'.' At the poflclugiou of an a hearty ypto of thanks and ppnfidepbo Btr. and confidence in Govornnimt yyas unanimously passed. The, {fiends' and supporters of Mr. T. M. Yfilfot(L M.P., are. invited to m'cet him at the Town Hall,' Lower Hutt, on Wednesday evening, for the purpose of forming a commiitteo to canvass his interests for tho coming general election.

MB. LHP. AT JOHSOI^YILLJI, Mr. J. P. Luke, a cflndidqtp for seat, , large Jofigspjvflta last' nig|\t,' 'IJr. R. Bpi\t(l prp«' sifting/ iyf. Lukp said 'ftp {He GayOTninffit should \>p carpful see, ttat immigrants qf % farmjpg Vfer'a 'selected. Thp Arbitration Js}|l TOl'jj. he sas, imnrftvp things pqpsjftpjably, . \ of natjpna) pensions Would b,Q, of ynipoqse benefit to. tl'P country, fjee-ntagß 'scholar§ in thp ?phools( shonl(f bp'aUqwed aj( thp. benefit'? accruing fjom tjfp' pxfreudecj sy'stpi, auft shpfllcj hp np. disprimjflatipn #5$ thp pp.tiogpi Y W mental' hospital should by, fig I up'rVO-date fcje-pvppf balding outside' ${( pity 'A nuiflbpr pf questions \y<ire answer'ps. A v-Qte Oif. tpanks was by JJi>, jjl Hpgg, but; ft vpta of tjianks find confmeMp mpved, as aq-ameflilw# TWf PWiPO. Wjth: out. dissoiit. A YOUNG NEW. ZEAI^NDER, (Bt yELBO^H.—CpaUESBfiNQISHT.I ciiris|p|iurcii,, September 25. A pprrospondunt of the "I'ress," referring to tha deoadencp of public spirit in N%' Zealand, declares that' all is not \yftU thp country,- and it behoves ifha liays faith in our future, and who liavo opportune ity and ability to \fork for that faitlj,. tfl. justify the advantages they have received frpm the epmmumty. Ha asl;s, afe siioh among our young New ZqalantJwß, thosp on whom the blight of that cyuicqj epp'ortnnitisn?," now alss the provsiilixig iipfe qf piir l'sirliauipnt, has not fallen, who -\vill into the arena and light our way to wortluer Que pame suggested itself to mo,- thp na.me of Mr. J. 0, Hall (second son of the late Sir John ftall, who is a wpmbcr of the' City Cpuneil, and chairman af the Jfiro Board), He has entPTPd publip 'Jifa quietly and mastoid ta'tiquEily. Ho is obviously pgpired' by nothing but a sense of his duty t-owarfis his In pur little cammuuity lip lias, filled ppmparfttively high and iuir ppvtant to the admiration of all wtw havp ppme into cpntapt with hip, and I jippe, aild pin certaiiijy not alone in hoib ing', that he niay see tliat tho tipae has now ppflip for him to step into tha lYidor arena by statiding for the constjtiienpy qf cimroii Nflt'tii i(t the cpjnmg elections. 'Big sjiccpss at, tho poll and after would bp \ forpgono cpn'pliisipn. I hayp pnjy to acjtl that my acquaiutanco with Mr. Hall is purely impersonal, *1 (}p npt even know him by sig|it. I am writjpg, qs I hope hp ml) hp (voting, solely for the rmifie and lipuour of o\ir oflmmon native coyptry.

QISBORNB SEAT. (9t TELEQE^m —PB?Sa iE9OOI4TiqN,I Gisborne, September 25. At a meeting of Opposition supporters t-o----niglit, Mr, W. Lissapt CJaytqn was selectpt] to represent tlio Opposition interests in the Gisborne oloctorato at the general election.