ELECTION NOTES

Evening Star, Issue 7250, 29 June 1887, Page 2

ELECTION NOTES

A meeting of Mr Walter Carlton’s Roslyn Committee was held last night in the Fire Brigade station. Over thirty gentlemen were present, and it was arranged to make a vigorous canvass of the district. Mr Carlton will hold his first public meeting in the Roslyn Council Chambers on Monday evening.

It is reported that Mr Dargaville will be opposed by Mr R. Thompson, chairman of the Whangarei County Council. Mr E. W. Morrison is in the field for Auckland West and Mr T. H. White for Auckland North.

Tire candidates now definitely out for Tauranga are Messrs L. M. Grace, R. King, W. Kelly, and Gill (ex-Judge of the Native Land Court).

The Hon. Mr Rolleston addressed a crowded meeting at Prebbleton last night. He defended his action in reference specially to the grain rates and Midland Railway, contending that his Government had reduced the former on the assurance that the revenue would not suffer thereby. It was compulsory to raise the rates again, owing to the diminished income. With regard to the Midland Railway, lie contended that personally he had consistently supported the undertaking. The reductions claimed to have been made by the Government had no real existence. Mr O’Callaghan, who was most enthusiastically received, charged Mr Rolleston with disingenuousness, and quoted ‘ Hansard ’ to show that he had misrepresented ids own actions and those of the Government to which he had belonged. Regarding the Midland Railway, Mr O’Callaghan made a palpable hit by declaring that the coldest shower which had fallen that evening was not to be compared in chilling effect to the wet blanket Mr Rolleston had persistently thrown over the Midland Railway enterprise. Mr Rolleston received a vote of thanks for his address, and three cheers were given for Mr O’Callaghan. We understand that a requisition in favor of Mr C. R. Chapman’s candidature for Dunedin Central is in course of signature.

Mr B. Halleustein has decided to allow himself to be nominated for Dunedin Central. At a meeting of the General Committee of the Protection League it was decided by an overwhelming majority to give the full support of the League to Mr Hallenstein in the approaching contest. The Lawrence paper states that Mr James Smith, of Greenfield, is a likely candidate for the Bruce seat, there being a movement among the farming community to induce him to come out.

A public meeting was held iu the schoolroom at Coal Creek Flat on Saturday last for the purpose of ascertaining public opinion in the district in reference to the coming election. The Chairman (Mr Mannel) read a letter he had received from Mr Vincent Pyke, in which that gentleman said he would have beep happy to have upheld the protection of fruit as agaipst the imported article, but the tariff was so framed that they had to swallow the whole or nothing. Consequently ho could not do anything in the direction indicated. The proposed duty on fruit was altogether too small, and it was not within the scope of a private member to increase it. The meeting blamed the Opposition for having involved the country in a useless expenditure of L 50,000, pronounced in favor of the reduction of the members of the House to fifty, and the ppinion was expressed that “if we do not protect our industries after the manner of Victoria, where prosperity is now rampant, we will go to the wall.” Qn the motion of Mr Tamblyn (secretary qf the Coal Creek Fruitgrowers’ Protection Society), the meeting pledged itself to support only the candidate who will pledge himself to support a Protective tariff.—‘Tuapeka Times’ correspondent.