Invercargill Letter.

Lake County Press, Issue 702, 2 April 1896, Page 7

Invercargill Letter.

A somewhat prolonged holiday visit to Christchurch has prevented.my contribution of local comment from reaching you in due time, but while the loss of your readers may have been infinitesimal, the benefit to your correspondent of change of scene of contact with business aud political life in the cathedral city, and of the “ harvest of a quiet eye ” has been considerable. ' Reaching the city soon after the late political centest, I found the community barely subsided from the exoiteinout of electioneering strife ; the prohibitionists satisfied with the gauge of their own strength, which Mr T. E. Taylor’s defeat gave them ; the conservatives safe fortlit-noncc with the return of Mr Lewis after the employment of every method known to electioneering, some of them very dubious ; the liberals anxious to placate tlm temperance party, with a view to coalition at the general election. Every indication points to the prophecy that the coming general election will be the most hotly contested that has been known in the annuals of the colony. Politicians are astir in every electorate, even though months must elapse before the contest, and a session of Parliament must intervene. The National Association is busy establishing branches in every electorate aud ho ists that it has been already arranged, to run 50 edd candidates at the next, election, and a great many electors are- joining Ihe association, with a very hazy knowledge of what its objects really are, and deluded by its high sounding title and plausible platform. The Association is a conservative organisation pure and simple, and is founded in the interests of capitalism and squattccracy. All electors who desire progression in the direction of liberal legislation, will do well to hesitate and examine carefully the platform of the Association, and the personnel of Its advocate in lieu of blindly joining any local branch of the Association which may be projected. It is generally admitted that the relegious instinct appears to bo more strongly implanted in women than in men but the experience of the recent Christchurch election would indicate that in the cathedral city the moral sence of its elite womenkind is not so strongly developed as elsewhere. Some remarkable stories are current regarding the proceedings of some of its grand dames on the day of the election one lady of high and Strong conservative proclivities is likely to interview the R.M. on a charge of intimidation. An excellent harvest in Canterbury has put everyone in good spirits and in Christ church there are evidences of prosperity on every hand. Everyone seems to have plenty of money and plenty of business to do. Building is also going on rapidly around the city. Turning towards home the Southland harvest has been abundant and the weather fairly propitious. Some of the corn still remains in the stook but a week or so will see all safely stacked. Prices are low as might b*> expected from the pressure of grain on the market. Oats are quoted at la 2d. My space is exhausted without much reference to local affairs, which must hold over until my next letter. We are expecting a visit from your cricket team at Easter aud will not begrudge them the laurels if they can carry them back. Murihiku. “ I would rather trust that medicine than any doctor I know of,” Says Mrs Hattie Mason of Chilton, Carter Co., Mo., in speaking of Chamberlain’s Colic, Cholera aud Diarr-‘ hoea Remedy. For sale by Robert Pritchard.