FEDERAL POLITICS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 12699, 31 October 1904, Page 5

FEDERAL POLITICS.

• ELECTORAL 'ADMINISTRATION. > C , By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. ; '' ' i. ■>'. '■ ■:"v:''■> ■ " v MEinotmwß, October 29- r 1 Thb : report of the Select •; Parliamentary ■ >•' ' , Committee appointed to inquire in the •.nm-'- ■ , satisfactory maimer in which the last Fede- ' . rail elections were \ conducted, ■ has ' b«n ' I tabled. ;It finds that thonjjii iaany causes of -'-r • complaints were said to exist " the commit-V ' tee could not ' find that their number :or I , I ' nature went such as to Justify - the adverts© ' j criticisms - passed upon the chief electoral ! office. The evidence had not disclosed any" defect in the principles..underlying the ' system, beyond the need for due inspection of • various offices,. aid a proper ■ provision for ' the systematic, instruction .of officers.V. The charges against a number of the office have not been sustain'-^. • - ' " ' NEW-AlintEpil?. '« . ' Melboitrks, October 29. The Minister for Defence has sent a cable- ' : gram to - England, ordering 20 of the new ' Impounder -loading field guns, with • which the Home Artillery is being supplied* : f ■ - (Beceirsd Octotalr 31, 12.« a.m.) MsLiotrßNE, October 30. •,i The gran ordered by the Federal Gowati ; . meat are ti* be d elivered early next year* ;