THE TIMARU SEAT.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIIC, Issue 13713, 30 September 1908, Page 4

THE TIMARU SEAT.

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the general election, in order pull the Government out of a,.hole, and immediately -after. Surely "this, if . it. prove correct; "Will be. playing low nom bothuporithfe. colony, and" upon thfe* coostituency. ... What right .fhas Mr HallJones to pnt the. country to the expense nf an unnecessary bye-election if his niind is already made-Tip to resign, and what right has he to pnt ths to the - inconvenience of an election if lie does not mean to carry through the responsibilities he will incur by a -successful candidature? The Ministerial journal in Christchurch is brutally frank »n its exposition of the Government s difficulties, and we.are almost inclined to believe that in desperatio£f of penetrating the discreet fc'knce *' which Mr,. Hall-Jones is preserving on the whole subject, it tiwying wild shots in the hope <»f inducing him to cocoe out into' Hie open. If so its att«npf* c t an be hardly has* damaging to the honourable gentleman thari his resolute refusal to let anybody know his ideas or his intentions.