POLITICAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 35, 26 September 1911, Page 6

POLITICAL.

THE TIMARU SEAT. V* (Per Press Association .1 Timaru, September 25. Mr. C. Turnbull declines an invitation to contest the Timaru scat in tiro Opposition interest, partly because lie will bo absent from tiro Dominion next year. No one else is named as yet in that interest. WELLINGTON EAST SEAT. Wellington, September 25. Mr. F. 6. Bolton, Liberal candidate for Wellington East, addressed the electors to-night. He urged the need for enquiry concerning the falling off in some industries, and into the question of the increasing cost of living. Ho preferred to support the Liberal Government because the negative Opposition policy offered nothing useful. The candidate had a good hearing. LABOUR CANDIDATES FOR 1 , ; DUNEDIN SEATS, \ Dunedin, September 25. The Labour Representation Council to-night finally selected Mr. D. MaeS 1 'son as candidate for Dunedin Cenand Mr. J. McManus as candidate for Dunedin South. The list of local candidates is now complete, and includes also Messrs. A. R. Barclay (Dunedin North), and A. McCarthy (Port Chalmers). A PATEA CANDIDATE. Wanganui, September 2G. Mr. F. train, a candidate for Patou, opened his campaign at Wtitotara last evening. He declared himself a, straight-out supporter of the Government and in favour of the bare majority. He received a vote of thanks. SIR JOHN FINDLAY. WILL CONTEST PARNELL SEAT. Auckland, September 26. Replying to a deputation this afternoon, Sir John Findlay said he would Cou.t rt sft the'Parnell seat at the general election. The invitations received led him to believe ho could win the seat , both on party and personal grounds. Auckland was much the largest city in thq Dominion, and he would feel it a special distinction to represent an Auckland constituency. He believed ho could win a Wellington seat had ho desired, hut' he could not, under existing corcum stances, honourably contest a - Wellington seat against a man yylirt'yhad supported his. Government and had been definitely chosen as the Government candidate for that seat. t KAIPARA SEAT. L : Dargaville, September 26. Mr. J. Gordon Coates, of Matakobo, will’contest the Kaipara seat at tlio general election as an Independent Liberal. He recognises that several planks in Mr. Massey’s platform are consistent with the principles of true Liberal reform.

NOTES BY THE WAY. The Prime Minister has hen asked by Mr. Hogan, M.P. for Wanganui, whether, in view of the statement made by him to the Marlborough deputation relative to tlieyjljrffijzplty iu obtaining lands for settlement, he will introduce a Betterment Bill dealing With increased unimproved land values,- 'otherwise called the-“unearned increment.’ ; The Milne seismograph, states.the Survey Department report, ehaldKd.t.he Department last year to obtain ' records of seventy-four earth.quo.kes. This instrument had. now been.-provid-ed with a quick-moving recfloSfef, giving a more open time scale Hh the.re* cords, which facilitated the identification of the various places of tlio motion, and also inter-comparison with records obtained at different places.