WELLINGTON NOTES.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 11131, 25 January 1899, Page 3

WELLINGTON NOTES.

[special to hawke's bay herald.] [BY TELEQRAPH.I Wellington, Tuesday. The Government intends calling for tenders afc once for the construction of the iron bridge over the Awatere river, near Blenheim, at present the only unbridged river botwcen Picton and Inveroargill, and one of the most dangerous in the colony. The bridge will be for road and railway traffic combined, railway above and road traffic beneath. Referring to the resolution of the Opposition leaders to enter on a campaign against Seddonisin, the Post tonight says : — " Above all, this campaign to succeed must be thorough, and to be thorough it will prove a costly affair in time, labor, and money to all engaged in it. It will take a big fighting fund, as ■veil as much public spirited effort, to fitly tell the electors from every platform in the country how it has come to pass that those who will not follow at the heels of the Premier have come to be almost deprived of the right of representation in Parliament upon the lines of constitutional usage. The Opposition is not lacking in thu power of platform oratory, and that power must be brought freely into play in every town and village in New Zealand long ero the yeur be passed, or the rule of Seddonism will be firmly fixed upon our necks for tho period oi ;•!•!, another Parliament." <.»ioit satisfaction is expressed in puliLiu d circles at (ho action of tho Opposition in determinedly coming faco to fuco with tho Govorninont bot'ore tho country, and already promi&oi of assistance) towards an immuusu organisation huvujcumein. A strong'coMinitlee has boon formed to uudortako the preliminaries and a confident feeling is abroad that the forthcoming election will go hard with tho party of misrulo. The Government canvassing agents are fully alive to the significance of tho recent ultimatum, however, and thero are not wanting signs that tho ukase has gone forth for a counter demonstration on bohalf of Seddonism from ono end of the colony to the other, so that a lively time may be oxpected during the noxt few months. Seventy thousand more sheep wort carried on tho railways for tho ton months just past than during thu corresponding poriod last year, but thoro has been a dropping oil' to tho extent of U00(. in pigs in the ton months.