EJECTION NOTES.

Evening Star, Issue 8364, 15 November 1890, Page 2

EJECTION NOTES.

, Mr VV. Snow addressed Taieri electors on Monday at Henley, and oh Tuesday at Outram.

Mr A. Lee Smith’s general committee meet this evenifig. Mr Smith will address electors at St. John’s Hall, Roslyn, on Wednesday evening. Mr H. S. Fish will speak at Old Knox Church on Tuesday evening. Electors of Port Chalmers district favorable to the return of Mr James Mills will meet in Foresters’ Hall, Port Chalmers, on Monday evening. The Hon. G. F, Richardson went South yesterday morning to commence his electoral campaign. Mr J. A. Millar is definitely out for the Port Chalmers district, and will address the electors at Purakanui on Monday evening and at Port Chalmers on Tuesday evening. Mr David Pinkerton announces that he will speak at the City Hall on Monday night; at Mornington Presbyterian Hall on Thursday ; and at St. John’s Hall, Roslyn, on Friday. In response to Mr Fish’s invitation to the electors to form a committee to secure his return to Parliament, some 200 gentlemen attended at the Oddfellows’ Hall, Rattray street, last evening. Mr H. Gourley was appointed permanent chairman of the central committee. Mr Fish intimated that he and Mr Pinkerton had arranged to contest the election together so far as committee rooms, etc., were concerned, Mr Hutchison having previously engaged a committee room would not be associated with his committee, but it would be understood they were all working together to secure the return of the labor candidates. Four gentlemen were appointed as chairmen of ward committees. Messrs Fish, Pinkerton, and Hutchison briefly addressed the meeting, which was most enthusiastic throughout, and closed with a determination, expressed by resolution, to support the labor party. Mr James Smith, a candidate for the Bruce seat, was accorded votes of thanks and confidence at Stirling and Kaitangata. Mr Thomas Ayson has definitely decided to retire from the contest for the Mataura seat.

Mr Thomas Mackenzie has been receiving votes of confidence from various parts of the Clutha electorate. There is no opposition to the late member’s candidature, Mr Feldwiok, the late member for Invercargill, received a good hearing at a meeting last night attended by about 600. A vote of thanks for past services and confidence as a candidate was declared carried.

The Colonial Secretary, speaking at Hastings, said that he was as staunch a Freetrader as ever, and if the Ministry proposed new protective duties he would leave them. He expressed regret that the primage duty, which violated no principle of Freetrade, had not been retained, and a corresponding amount taken off the duties on the necessaries of life. He spoke strongly on the question of defence, contending that unless more encouragement was given to volunteering, the large amount expended on forts, intricate guns, and mines would be simply thrown away, because there were not men enough to man them. Ho is in favor of female suffrage.