THE GENERAL ELECTION.

Evening Post, Volume LXIV, Issue 118, 14 November 1902, Page 6

THE GENERAL ELECTION.

'•With "the gloves off," was the style in which the chairman at last night's meeting announced that Dr. Findlay would deal with the charges made against the Government at the Skating Rink tonight. If last night's 'meeting was a sample of his speeches with the gloves on, there should be a vigorous onslaught to-night. Patrick J. O'Regan was nominated for Wellington City to-day by Wm. Thos. Young, 52, Dixon-street, Secretary of the Seamen's Union ; Peter M'Ardle, Queen's Chambers, coal merchant; Thos. Lynch, il, Tory-sheet, labourer ; Finlay McLeod, Cuba-street, draper; Wm. Chas. Noot, painter, Howe's-lane ; Helen Mary Johnson, Broadway-terrace ; Margaret Craig, Webb-street. Mr. Barber's Committee will meet tonight. Mr. Barber speaks at Mitchelltown on Tuesday evening. The Returning Officer has received the nomination of Mr. John Duthie for the city seat signed oy Donald M'Lean, Hawker-street; Richard Tingey, Kentterrace ; Annie Henderson Kirker, Perci-val-street.

From the beginning oE the financial year to 11th October 3,355,566 passeneers (exclusive of 61,757 ticketholders) were carried on the New Zealand railways, an increase of over thirty thousand on the number carried in the same period last year. Over two million tons of goods were carried, an increase of 48,702 tons. Timber aud grain show decreases of Z% million tons and 81,678 tons respectively. There is a gmit deal of sickness amongst the children in the Riwaka (Nelson) district, and in consequence the attendance at the .school has been seriously affected. The Eev. Joseph Berry, for many years a minister of the Wesleyan Church in New Zealand, but who is now in Adelaide, has been seriously ill with partial paralysis oi the brain..