THE ELECTIONS.

Pelorus Guardian and Miners' Advocate., Volume 22, Issue 93, 1 December 1911, Page 4

THE ELECTIONS.

MR ATMORE’S,CANDIDATURE. VISIT TO THE SOUND'S. Mr Harry Atmoremadea tour of the Sounds, calling at Nydia Bay on Nor’-west Bay on Saturday, and speaking to over 60 persons at the social held in the Opouri in the evening.. He afterwards visited Elaine Bay, Deep Bay, and so on • to Bulwer, returning to Havelock on Tuesday morning in time to catch the coach. During his trip he received assurances of support on every hand, his freehold and clean administration'principles being very favourably received. He expects to poll heavier even than in 1908, when the Sounds settlers gave him a very handsome majority. A BIG MEETING IN NELSON. He returned to Nelson in time to speak at the Theatre Royal in the evening, when he was greeted by the largest audiences ever inside that building. Upon rising to speak he was received with cheer after cheer, and his stirring speech was Sunctuated with rounds of applause. He ealt with the Colonist attacks (which he characterised as good advertisements for himself) in a good-humoured but most effecttive fashion, and upon concluding received a unanimous vote of thanks and confidence, moved by Mr W. Rout and seconded by Mr T. Macmahon. Mr Atmore will speak .at the Golden Bar mine this evening, at Kaiuma on Saturday afternoon at 2 o’clock, and at Cauvastown in the evening.i

The Parliamentary candidates who complain of being misreported are nearly always the beginners. They intend to say something, and really ,do say something else, and when they see the report in print they squirm. They also do not realise how much they owe. to the reporter for squaring up foggy sentences r and curing obvious errors. But Mr D. Macpberson really does seem to have a grievance against some paper down south. He told the meeting that when be previously stood for the House be was asked, whether he would go tp reside in the district, and his reply to the effect that he would give an undertaking to do so was printed next day as a promise to become an undertaker. I In bis first election, said Ur Herrlas at Tauranga. Sir J. Ward lost one Minister and ten seats Since then two of the Ministers bad dropped out. It was bard, to foretell what the present election would do, but there were indiactioos that one Minister : would be defeated. Two fahts that the electors may carefully weigh ' wheu considering the finandal operations of the Government art that the public debt has increased from £37,000,000 in 1891 to £81,000,000 at the present tube, and that, the annual expenditure in addition has increased, from £5,479,704 in 1901 to j£9.343»i06 in the financial year.