Election intelligence.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 5991, 5 November 1890, Page 3

Election intelligence.

Messr., J. W. Thompson' aud J. Smitl will contest Bruce.

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Masterton, This day,

Mr Geo. Beetham, member for Masterton in the last. Piiriiameiit, who is seeking reelection, in an address to t'xo electors las' night announced that if elected he would not serve any leader but Harry Atkinson, and iv his absence would be independent.

Auckland. Tuis day,

Sir Maurice O'Korke, spea'.ing at Otahuhu, said in being pressed that be was in favor of Mt. Pyke's School Bill. He got ii vote of confidence

N'T? Plymouth, This day

Mr E. M. Smith addressed tho electors last nifitit. He was opposed to the property tax and favored a i-iv on unimproved land, supplemented with an income tax and Dustom.s. Ho would settle the land on liberal terms. He considered land should fie quickly acquired from the natives t'c favored Free Trade as against Protection, and believed in the offering of bonuses to encourage local industries. He would support free, secular, and compulsory education up to the Fourth Standard, but would reduce the cost both of primary and secondary education. He considered the Kail way Commissioners the best three men in the colony for the position. He considered the Taranaki harbor would be taken over the same as the Greymouth and Westport harbors. He favored Federation. Ho believed in unionism, but objected to strikes.