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policy, adding that the occasion demanded more than a "go-slow" policy, and by specially commending the stokers "for sometimes holding up the ferry service in order to become drunk, to overcome the depression caused by working at those fires in such a hole." THE REVOLUTIONARY PARTY. Mr C. E. Statham, the member for Dunedin Central, who is expected to defeat his opponent, the Labour candidate, referring to Labour and politics, put the position thus, certain extremists ha.d abrogated to themselves the sole right to speak for Labour, and had, in fact, claimed a monopoly of solicitude for the workers of the Dominion. At recent byelections three leading spirits of this extreme party had succeeded in finding their way in to the House of Representatives—Messrs Holland, Semple, and Fraser—all of whom had been in gaol for sedition, and Mr Holland had been chosen as Leader of the Party. He (Mr Statham) believed that the victory at the polls of these three men had done more to set back the cause of true Labour in