FEDERAL ELECTIONS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LVII, Issue LVII, 13 April 1910, Page 8

FEDERAL ELECTIONS.

/ «. WHAT THE PAPERS SAY. fPfcTWB ASBQOIATTON.] (Received April 13, 12.30 p.m.) SYDNEY, April 13. The weather is fin© for the elections. The morning papers say that if the voters do their duty the Liberals will hold their own, if not gain ground. On the other hand, Labor is splendidly organised and very confident v ' In most of the electorates there will be a straight-out fight, th,e Independents being less numerous than at the previous election. The referendum on the finance question complicates the issue. The Herald advises the electors to say "yes" to both the financial agreement between the States and the Commonwealth and the transfer of State debts, while the Telegraph advacates "ye§ to the agreement, and "no" to the transfer. The Herald, in the course of an article supporting the Government, says: "Upon the Liberal electors of New South Wales to-day is thrown the, onus of showing that the Newcastle strike received no public approval."