THE GENERAL ELECTION
The Awarua temperance party, at their next meeting, will nominate candidates to wiitest the seat. It is understood that the temperance party will put up a candidate in each constituency so as to secure ,a local option poll. Mr C. Opio is contesting the Courtenay (Leith Canterbury) seat in the Liberal interest. - The chances of Mr J. J. Ramsay for the Taieri seat are said to be brightening every day. Mr A. W. Rutherford, addressing the Cheviot electors, is reported to have said that “if they wanted anything from the Government the best way was to get Ministers to come to the place, to get a v brass band out to welcome them, and afterwards to give them a jelly good feed !” A not elegant way of putting matters, and it does not say mu:h for the political morality of a district that would act on such advice. RAETIHI, September 25. At the conclusion of Mr Reardon’s political address last night the meeting unanimously carried the following resolution;— “We Liberals of Raetihi recent the impolitic actioj of the Federation in selecting a candidate before the various candidates have addressed the electors, and decline to be guided by the selection.”
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Evening Star, Issue 11692, 25 September 1902, Page 5
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202THE GENERAL ELECTION Evening Star, Issue 11692, 25 September 1902, Page 5
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