POLITICAL NOTES.

Waipawa Mail, Volume XXI, Issue 3668, 26 October 1897, Page 3

POLITICAL NOTES.

(From various sources ) “ What is wanted in tbs polioe force ie a proper system of promotion.’’—Mr Miller’s opinion. “ It ia all buncombe tbia cry of increased intemperance. Gambling does a great deal more barm than whisky, and so dooe tea.”—Mr Field. It ia intended to compile a Parlia mentary dictionary in which those coriona words and phrases whiob are occasionally need in the House will find place. This session bsa already contributed each words as “ em bareaa ” and “ effrontety.” “ Correctly true” ia an interesting phrase. Mr Taylor will try to find out how the Premier spent £5lB in going to Hobart and back, and also bow in tbe aggregate tbe Premier was almost as costly to the ooantry as the Governor. He is also goiug to test the feeliug of the House on tba question nf the Piemier holding a seat on a foreign syndicate. The tactical mistakes made by tbe Gev eminent in the Dunedin election are kindly pointed ont by tbe Otago Timet It was a great mistake to put up a candidate as a Ministerial poppet. It was a great mistake to permit Mr Ward to intervene at all The Dnnedin electors know their own business best. It was a mistake, and a cruel one, to throw Mr Hutchison over. He gained many votes from sympathy. It was a mistake to permit the Government candidate to palter with the education question. Finally, it is a groat mistake to come to any other conclusion than that tbe majority of tbe electors are heartily tired of a Government which throws its friends over board to save itself, which makes moo eat tbeir own words, whiob compels the Labour organisation to delete the National Prohibition plank from its platform iu

order that it may support a candidate with “ trado ” proclivities, and which finally fills its cap with iniqnity by raking the co operative works in Otago Central, and railing tbe labourers down like dumb cattle to vote for the Government oandidate. No shuffling, no subterfuge, cau explain away tbe fact tbat the days of Ministerial dominance in Dnnedin are over.