The General Election.

Thames Advertiser, Volume XXVIII, Issue 8595, 26 November 1896, Page 3

The General Election.

Mr Edwin Edwards will address the the electors at Kopu this evening. Yesterday Mr' E. H. Taylor was . nominated as a candidate for the Thames «eat by Messrs Henry Brownlee, mine manager, Mackay street, and James Dare, miner, Waio-Karaka, A wiro was received from Mr McGowan yesterday: "Just returned , ; from Cabbage Bay and Port Charles, Good success there. Going toWhanga- .; poua to-morrow." - Mr W. H, Herries wns on Monday ■ iiomiuated as a candidate for the Buy of Plenty seat in the House of Representatives, his nominators being .Messrs Commons and Maxwell. • Mr E. H. Taylor had a most enthusiastic meeting at Kuaotunu on ' Tuesday evening, when a voto of confidence was carricd pledging the mooting to do their utmost to roturn Mr Taylor as their representative. Our Waihi correspondent, writing of Mr Cadnwn's speech at Waihi, says:—"As to the impression made by him upon the electors, it would be ' a difficult matter to decide with any certainty. That many were disappointbeyond all doubt. A speech in of past policy, with little or no njstfence to the policy proposed to be adopted in the future, must, of necessity, have left those of his hearers not already prejudiced in his favor with a sense of something lacking in the Minister as a candidate for their representation in Parliament, The teeing seems to be that what,we want here is that the man we,put into power to represent us will carry with him a keen desire to see us get our demands j that we are no longer an infaut, to be

patted on the head and told to bi good, and maybe ■we shall have th< moon we are crying for; that we are on the contrary, a Yery real, full-growr community, and we have real needs which our representative must do hit level best to get for us, Many of us refuse to believe that it is sufficient foi us to be told that a great deal has been done for us in the past and that a great deal may possibly "be done for us in the future, and hold that more might have been done for us in the past, and that we have every right to demand that more still should be done for us in the i future, By no means do I wish to imply that those who are of this opinion say Mr Cadman has done nothing for us iu the past, nor that he will do nothing for us if returned; but that he is nob absolutely heart and soul with us in some respects, the opinion seems to have gained ground after listening to his address, Tho ' audience were evidently somewhat doubtful of their feelings, as a vote of confidence was c. .:led for, to which two different amendments were shouted out, In the end something was put to the meeting, but whether it was the motion or one of the amendments very few knew.

(Per Press Association.) Wellington, November 25. The reason given by Mr Duncan for withdrawing from the contest for tho City is that he has no wish to split the Liberal vote,