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Mr Moffatt wires from Homewood :— " Visited Waitara, St. Omer, Double, and Nydisi Bays; cordially received at each placo. Spoke at Nydia Bay on Mo'ndny afternoon, and at Craig's Mill, Opuri Valley, ac night. I addressed a well attended meat ing, and was accorded a heaity and unanimous vote of thanks aud confidence, on tbo motion of Messrs Craig and Bate.'" Tba main roll for the Nelson electorate contains 5827 names, aud the supplementary roll 2048 names, niukiog a total' of V 875. • A budding Aucklar d politician witu the appropriate. cognomen Wake, asked by an elector if he was in favour of conscripticu said, "no," but he was in favour of subscription — towards candidates' electioneering expenses. Nobody took tte hint. Mr W. Campbell, Opposition candidate for Timaru, made rather a quaint claim to tlie suffrages of the people. I3y ecbola.7sb.ips. won he reckoned be iias cost the country interest on a capital sum of £6400, and he thought it his duty to serve his -country (in Parliament, of course) as a returu. Mr*T.E. Taylor (a candidate for Cbristchurcu North seat) does not believe tbat the State shoula acquire the Bank of New Ztaland, because he considers" that the cost would be enormous, but ho will ask that the functions of the Post Offices Savings Bank should be so extendbd as to make it a State Bank. iJis idea is that tho SaviDgs Bank should allow depositors to ueo cheques, should pay -2 per cent interest on daily. balancee, and suoulcl take to itself tho sole right of note issue. This would mean, in effect, the securing of a loan .of £1.000,000 at 2 per cent, this being the paymonc now made by the banks to tne Government in respect of the note issue. Mr A. W. Tyndal, a teacher of Blue Spur, Utago, who is a candidate for the i'ruce seat, desires to put "a rather heavy tax" on bachelors, and use tbe resultant cash in bonuses for babies. Who will say now that school teachers are noc practical men.