ELECTORAL ITEMS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume IX, Issue 1663, 30 June 1887, Page 2

ELECTORAL ITEMS.

, In response to a requisition, Mr. John r Elliott is opposing Colonel Trimble for . Taranaki seat. f Mr. Bryce delivers a speech on tbe i public affairs of tbe colony at Fatea on ) Wednesday evening. The Peninsula electors have decided to t ask John Roberts to contest the Peninsula • 6e.it with Mr. Lirnach. ; Mr. Hallenstein is definitely out for I Duneiliu Central, in the protection in- , terest. 3 In his address to the electors of I W-dikatu Mr. J. B. Whyte says: — I t think I can sa? with truth that I have ' never been looked upon as a violent party f man ; still I desire to say most emphati- > cally that, as matters political now stand, t I consider it a solemn duty devolving ) upon every man who cares a rap for bia > adopted country, or wLo has children i* growing up in it, to kick out of office and '' to keep outof power a Government like the ' present one. Being well known to yon all, " until I meet you on a platform I need only ' add, as regards my policy that I belong 1 to a number of men who mean to say to > any future Government this;— ln future > the colony must live within its actual ' income; the gross burden of taxation 1 must not be increased ; deficits must be 1 met by reduced expenditure and mis* 1 fortunes by economy, and also that a general system of reduced expenditure must be commenced at once and carried into effect as speedily as possible.