WELLINGTON NOTES.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXIV, Issue 13936, 19 December 1905, Page 10

WELLINGTON NOTES.

[From Oua Correspondent,] WELLINGTON, December 18. Some enthusiastic members of tho prohibition party have begun a systematic- attempt to obtain belief for a theory that the Government success at the election.was due to the superior organisation of the liquor part}’, and are persistently declaring that there is to be a new r Liquor Bill. a't the first opportunity giving six • years tenure, and providing for no-licenee no liquor. Some w’ords that fell from Mr Dutliie on a recent occasion, about tho effect of the trade organisation on the result of the elections have been made the basis for this wonderful hypothesis. Most of us arc old enough to remember how, at former elections, it was notorious that the only place in which the trade was then organised was Auckland. The Auckland trade w r as thought to have escaped in consequence .with the least injury. On the last occasion, however, the trade did organise elsewhere as well, but it has suffered more in the north than any other district in loss of votes, and consequent position. Organisation then is not everything. Organisation it is freely declared by supporters of tho Government may have don© the trade good in these parte, and the south, but as-for the causes of tho Government victory they are, every Government supporter insists, quite tod obvious for any nonsense about the liquor votes. The Ministerial superiority of aim, record, achievement and initiative were the theme of speeches, and articles without number during the election, and that superiority has given the victory over a party that palpably had nothing whatever to recommend it. The notion that tho greatest political victory on record was due'to anything but the natural and obvious causes is scouted as- childish throughout the ministerial following. It will; interest your readers, bo learn, apropos of ,the Chinese on the Rand, that a Mr Lisack, of Sunbnry House, Cliasold Park, London, writes' to the “Post”, in terms of hearty approval of the stand taken by that journal in regard to Chinese labour in the Transvaal. He says —“ Your men played- such a striking part in tho terribly expensive war against the Boers that you must feel keenly hurt by the after results of your patriotic labour. The people of the British Isles have been in the dark hitherto, but they are now fully aware of the one /result of the War, Chinese labour, the scum of China introduced in order to dispense -with white labour for the benefit of a few 'cosmopolitan millionaires, who are the largest holders of scrip in the Transvaal mines. We have been hoodwinked on this side, but the whole dirty business is now fully laid bare, and the present Government (Mr Balfour’s) is cursed for its perfidy.’ s '