NEW SOUTH WALES ELECTIONS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 10587, 18 October 1910, Page 4

NEW SOUTH WALES ELECTIONS.

[By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.] (Per Press Association.)

Received October 18, at 0.50 a.m. V Sydney, October 17. The Cabinet discussed the political , situation and decided to await the final .'. leturns heioio taking am definite steps THE OPTION POLL. Received October 17, /it 1120 p.m. SydneVj October 17. y On the piesent- figures —many, still beirig'-'incomplete—fourteen electorates, including Allowries, appear to have'secured, reduction. " v L'»terSreturnS'from"-Allowries; destroy of4io-license -being carried. - The Telegraph, commenting on the station, saj'S the'"poll indicates that rn.ith.e-. opinion of. the majority of the electorates-reduction Cof, licenses is not a<rT?rocess to. be'jrepeated every three years',--but when once the hotels are cut-'down to meet the-legitimate requirements of the district there should be no further interference. The reasonable deduction to be drawn from the emphatic, expression > against ey_en re-duction-is-that" the electorates- as a whoje .have refused to listen to the appeals mi ofcno-hcense. •Received October/18, at 0.50 a.m. '« •'• * Sydney, October 17. " Mr Sutton, President of the Licensed Victuallers'-Association, claims a great victory. The ejection proves, he says, that the people love liberty, and when it is endangered, speak with a large vote. He never thought for a moment they would vote otherwise than m a liberal manner Thej won't be dictated to by pulpit or press. Canon > Boyce, addressing the State Council of the New South Wales Al-l-uui'c.e, said- While theie was no important victory, to chronicle, the liquoi interest had been to some exteut weakened" by' tinthei i eductions, and was unable to -stay the lout notwithstanuirigi the enoimous expendituie Received OcLobei IS, at 8.35 a.m. October 18. _ The Sydney B era Id, accounting for Mr M'Gowen's vicloiy, says the steadily increasing Labor vote has been enormously accentuated from outside, particulaily from the Liquor interest. Liquor appeals to have voted solidly for as Labor appeals to have voted solidly for liquor. Received October IS, at 12.57 a.m. I s -" „ S-ulney, October 17. Mr Nicholls; the New Zealand temperance advocate, attributes the posi-tion-to the Labor and Liquor interests voting together.,, The same thing happened m New Zealand, but Labor aftei uaids chopped the Tiade and declared 1 war against it