The Wanganui Chronicle, AND PATEA-RANGITIKEI ADVERTISER. "NULLA DIES SINE LINEA." THURSDAY, APRIL 22, 1897. THE WEELINGTON SUBURBS ELECTION.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXXVIIII, Issue 12287, 22 April 1897, Page 2

The Wanganui Chronicle, AND Patea-Rangitikei Advertiser. "NULLA DIES SINE LINEA." THURSDAY, APRIL 22, 1897. THE WEELINGTON SUBURBS ELECTION.

Tjps_™iliug ; to_fill. tlie vacancy .forthe Wellington Suburbs caused by iihet unseating of^ Mr Wilford will !ta_e •'place to-morrbw. .The candi- > "dates are Mr Charles" Wilson, editor opyity'Npyri Zealand, Ma jl, who .stands in "tte .Government interest, and Mr 'A.' R. Atkinson, a; clever young lawyer, and keplieW of the late Sir' Harry Atkinson. Mr Atkinson 4s almost a Radical in his political views, ,fyut he ie : utterly > opposed, to the present Government on account of ' the'sdprruption which has disfigured its whole career. He is a ; very -able man, a good speaker, a _6rn political fight-ir, and a man .bald .fevettbe brißeePor cajoled into supporting anything he does not believe, to be right. Well, read, _.v/jth strong , and. clear convictions, •#nd * utterly, regiir-iess of his. own personal interests in his desire to advance' the good, Mr Atkinson is jnst the. kind of man for fehom an opening is wanted in pnblio life. Mr Wilson, the GojvOTjfim.ent candidate, is well known to a-gpodj/xuany Wanganui people. A few years. ago he was engaged on the >te_GJii_g* Staff of tbe Collegiate 'S.hdbl. r Later on he/ took tdjournalisni, his first engagement beim?! on the staff of this paper; aff&r which'-, he, wrote for our looal con-* temporary. After leaving \ Wanganni t he, edited in tarn a PbyerfyBay: paper, , the Napier Evening News, and the Marton Mercury. At the " present time, as we have already said, he is 1 engaged as editor of -'the New Zealand Mail, the weekly, .edition , of £_e Wellington. Government organ,. the New Ze_-' laq.d ;T,imes.' rMr Wilson docs not strike ns as being in any sense a serious politician. No doubt be is' extremely >an3tious to get into Parliatnoht. j M-iny- men are that, who, for the country's sake, are better jont joTf. Parliament than in 1 it. Mr -Wilson4s a ready writer, and an equally ready speaker, , but , he has 'neyer impressed ns as having convictions 'deeper.'' than his circumstances... Should;. he be elected for thVSub.rbs, he* may 'be expected * to . give, /the. Government -just the*. kind of _ support tbey wan t-^-snpport under hil cirenmstances, whether they .'are .right or wrong. By. most, people it is accepted as a foregone' conclusion that Mr 'Wilson ; must win — mustwin, because Mr Wilford •won a^insfra veteran politician like lir Hißlop,? _rid ; because Petone, •with its, railway and other Jwork* shops, is* a .hotbed of Seddonism. Xn. addition to "this, Mr Wilson' was yvell__ under way with his canvass b|fbre Jar announced himself, but 'as soon "as the latter took \ the field there was an uneasy flutter in the Government 'Q>mp, and Mr.Ge.rge Fisher (with his new_, Seddqnite coat on) and Mr Hdtchison, the two Government members forjWellington, were sent J out against him.' . But >eyen this waisViiot enough. r The' Premier j Kiniseif, the moment he was able to turn hisVhack upon Parliament,, took the field \in person . and delivered iOne -:/of; bis characteristic speeches ; against Atkinson and ; Opposition. But little Atkinson," w;hp -a, -• host in himself, goes .•''' on hf3. , way, making; headway- at ] every, meeting. If- the election day were onlyfaiittle further.' pff, it is confideritiyjbelieved that ho would win; And even as; ib is, , the t Government party are sorely afraid that their man will go down." To-ihorrow night they, will know' all aboutit.