Election Intelligence.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 6003, 20 November 1890, Page 3

Election Intelligence.

Mr G. H. Swan was nominated to-dr.v e.s a candidate for the representation of Napier in Parliament. He will address the electe.iv at Taradalo to-ni_hr,

Captain Russell addresses tho elect..rs -t Petano, in the schoolroom at 7.30 p.m. on Saturday.

Mr John Bryce addressed a lartre audience at Hamilton, Auckland, on Tuesday evening as a candidate for the W.vikato seat. He denied that ho had been iv favor of loan expenditure. In other respects his speeeli was simply an exemtdifiealion of his published address. Ho preferred a property tax to a laud tax As to primary education the State's duty tnitrhi cease at about the fourth standard He favored woman sadrage. He had no preferer.ee as to borrowin;.' nionev in New Z-.laud nt- in London. With care and prudence the colony would ovarootne its difficulties. He had no de-ire for office, nor did he b'dievn it probable that he would join a Ministry. A vote of coufidenct'i was pa«. .. .1

At Mt Lee-.-milh's meeting hist nicrht at Roslyn, Dunedin, after the candidate had been "speaking for some timo, some chemical was introduced into the room, which stank so terribly that all present woro glad to quit the building.

Mr James Brown, one of the candidates for the Ashburtou seat, referring to tho incidence of taxation, said : — A great many people desired that a laud and income tax should immediately take tho place of the property tax. He could not support the proposition. In theory nothing could be fairer than <>n income tax. Practically, nothing would be moro outrageous in a country like New Zealand. He wished to know what were the incomes that were to be taxed. Was a farmer's land to be taxed as well as the income derived from it? Was the mortgagee who owned threefourths of a farm to be taxed on his income P If so, then the farmer would have to pay it, for tho mortgagee would raiso tho interest.