GENERAL ELECTIONS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 6970, 26 September 1890, Page 3

GENERAL ELECTIONS.

9 THE EOLLS. [from our own correspondent.] ■WELLINGTON, Sept. 25. A curious discovery has beea made about the one man one vote law. It is that under certain circumstances ifc does not limit a man to one vote. A man may be registered in as many constituencies bb he pleases. After a general election a particular member is petitioned against, and there is a fresh election. Every elector j who ia registered can vote, even if under another qualification he has voted in another constituency. That is the point where this theory is invented. It may prove an encouragement to the disappointed to litigate. There is a senaation here about the candidacy of Mr Collins, the freethought lecturer, who has been addressing crowds of labourers indoors and out of doors on the 6trike in the city. I judge from the consternation of the other candidates that they regard Mr Collins chance as a " moral." They have discovered that the enemy has a property qualification which he has now held long enough to enable him to hold a seat if elected. Mr Collins, on his side, says that tw6 lawyers of eminence have told him that his right is everything that it ought to be. A rumour is current that Mr Freaman Jackson, of Wanganui, is to be put up against Mr Ballance, Mr Carson retiring. Mr Jackson is said to be very popular. [Peb Press Association.] AUCKLAND, Sept. 25. Mr J. B. Whyte, who represented Waikato in the last Parliament, announces that he will not seek re-election. "WELLINGTON, Sept. 25. Theelectoral rolls are readyfor Te Aroha, Waikato, East Coast, Waitotara, Wanganui, City of Wellington, Hutt, Waimea, Picton, Buller, Westlaud, Kaiapoi, Akaroa, Peninsula, Duuedin Suburbs, Clutha, Tuapeka, Invercargill and Awarua. Mr Thomaa Kennedy M'Donald will contest Wellington City at the general election. Meßsra J. B. Blair and C. F. North will not be candidates. TIMAEU, Sept. 25. Mr A. E. G. Rhodes ia announced as a candidate for Geraldine, and Mr W. J. Steward for Waimate. DUNEDIN, Sept. 25. The Hon G. P. Richardson arrived this evening, and leaves for Goie on Saturday. It is not his intention at present to address his constituents. INVERCARGILL, Sept. 25. A requisition to Mr G. M. Bell, of Wantwood, is being circulated in the Toi-Tois district of the Mataura electorate, for which the hon the Minister for Lands sits. The documents are said to be fairly well signed ; the Hon G. F. Eichardson having offended a section of the electors in that locality by declining to push the claims of the Seaward Bush Railway extension into the district, except aa part of a general scheme of railway construction which he was sure the House would not sanction.