Election Intelligence.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 6012, 1 December 1890, Page 3

Election Intelligence.

Mr Swan's Spit committee will meet this evening. The business is important, co a large attendance of this influential oommitteo is requested.

Mr T. Mackenzie, who has been returned unopposed for Clutha, has purchased the business of Messrs Pitt and Bonnett, at Girtborne. Tho Poverty Bay settlers are well pleased at securing Mr Mackenzie as a resident, as it will practically give them another representative in Parliament. With Mr Arthur, who is certain to beat Mr Kelly, Mr Carroll, and Mr Mackenzie, tho East Coast will havo threu strong Ministerial supporters to attend to its requirements. If to those three Hawke'e Bay eonds to Wellington Captain Rusmoll, Mr Swan, and Mr Hunr.Hr, this part of tho colony will have no little weight in. tho House.

Th» Catholic Times thus deals with Mr Bullance: —"The truth is, and Mr Ballauce knows it, that ho is not fit for a leader. Physically and mentally ho has run to seed. He has neither oratorical skill, voice, determination, nor the confidence of the House. Ho has in .short m>ne of those qualities which aro dptnauded in a leudor, and he is no more fitted by nature or by art to lead a political party or cope with the jiHtute Atkinson than ho i« to choose and buy horses fur the Defence Force. We write this in sorrow, not in anger, because he in a very good fellow is Mr Btillmice, and we have quite a regard for him when he doesn't get angry and inveut adjectives. And to show our regard, we will give him thU advico: Don't trust too much in the political friendship of Sir Robert Stout; don't do it friend Bnllanee, or you will find yourself, politically speaking , , in the position of tho little boat—a long way astern ! "

The following- is an extract from the speech of Mr D. Goldie (returned unopposed for Newton) as reported in the New Zealand Herald of 27th ult. :—" His children hail all been educated at his own expense with the exception of the last two, and finding , they were not bring so well educated at private schools, he sent them to the public schools. He would oppose Mr Pyke's * Private Schools Bill' uud denominational education in ovwy shapf- and form. There were 12,000 Catholic children in the public schools, and there was no reason why thu other SOOO should not be thare also, witting , side by side with the children of the Protestant fellow citizens without regard to creed. (CJheerx.) They had i.ot satisfied the- Catholic.* when they paid the hiilf allowanco spoken of in Mr Pvke's Bill. If they looked at the Tablet of 1837 they wtmld Hi!o they were going to ul&im a grant for school building, and thin would uleo be claimed by others. DononiinationalUin had been the curso of England, and it would bo the eurHC of New Zealand if it were over allowed to get into our national school system." There wore 400 votes, less than the number polled at the Eastern Maori election than in 1577, the figures being 3007 as against 3405. The difference can be partly accounted for by th« fact that the election this time was held in the middle of shearing, and the Maoris did not care to lose & day by travelling to a polling place. At the same time, it is well known that death has boon amongst the natives during the past three years. Advicea received by tho Native Department show that tho completed returns for the Northern Maori district were as follows :— Sydney TaiwhiMigo. .. ..661 Tinoti Pkpipi 31)4 Wireinu Katene .. .. 11)2 Wirornu Mikihtma .. ~ 107 —Another poll will be taken in consequence of tho death of Sydney Taiwhauga. Messrs W. J. Steward avid Alpheus Hayes were nominated for the Waiinate electorate.