ELECTION NOTES.

Mataura Ensign, Issue 223, 3 December 1896, Page 5

ELECTION NOTES.

Mr W. Fraser spoke at Riversdale on Tuesday night ; Mr ~W. A. Donald occupying the chair. The Drill Hall was filled, a large number of ladies being amongst the audience. The address was enthusiastically received, aud, at the termination, a vote of thanks and confidence was proposed by Mr Kennedy, and carried by acclamation. The Rev. Father Mackay, spoakiug at 1 Oamaru on Sunday moruiug, took occasion to refer the erroneous impression that had got abroad that the temperance organisation (the League of the Cross) was associated with Prohibitiou. He pointed out that the objects of this League had nothing iv common with the intemperate proposals of the 1 Prohibitionists, but were confined strictly to ' temperance. Hotels had their uses, and if | their status were lowered the accommodation ' that the people looked lor, and were prepared i to pay for, could not be given. ! Mr J. W. Thomson addressed a large - meeting at Tapanui on Monday night, and , was accorded a unanimous vote of thanks and confidence. Waitaki elector : " Will the candidate tell the electors why a horse does not shed the 1 hair of his tail the same as the hair of his body ?" Candidate : " Stand up, my lad, till I see you." Elector (who has a fine 1 head of hair) stauds np. Candidate (who is very bald) : " A horse does not east the hair of his tail for the same reason that you do not cast the hair of your head — the brain being considerably removed from that part." Subsidence of the elector.