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FOR COHEN, who will Not votes for further taxation. All loans should be •interest-bearing. 7673 FITZGEKALD and Honest Labour and Honest Purpose. Vote for Fitzgerald. , 7650 .TO THE ELECTORS. WELLINGTON ' CITY. ' / i ONE of'jour greatest assets is the Quiet Sunday! Its value to home and 6ocial life is immense. The compulsory cessation of nil rork ears that which is doclared necessary by the State is one of the great features of British life everywhere. This custom has been violated in our City by the sanctioning of Sunday Entertainments for private gain. Experience in England, Canada, and Australia, as well as in' Foreign Lande, proves that once the Sunday Entertainer is allowed in, the Sunday custom crumbles; otheis demand that the privilege of money-making on Sunday granted to the Entertainers shall be. extended to them, ■ and Sunday workers become an ever-increasing army. Wellington should be sensible enough to accept the experience of our kinsmen beyond the seas, and should stand in with Auckland, Chnstchurch, and Duncdin, in prohibiting the Speculative Entertainer. The'following question has boon submitted to all Candidates for I civio honours, by tho Council of the Evangelical Churches:—Do you favour tho proposal, I "That the ■ City jCouncil should prohibit all Sunday Entertainments in halls, under its I jurisdiction, save such as are held for distinctly charitable purposes?' , Tho purpose I of this proposal is to prohibit all Sunday Entertainment for private gain. It is heartily endorsed by Archbishop , Redwood, Bishop Wallis, the heads of all the Protestant Churches, the Unitarian Minister, end the Jewish Eabbi, and'by. representative leaders of tho Labour party. < For information of the electors, we publish the folowing lesults of our inquiry:— In favour of the Council of Churches' proposal:—Messrs. Aston. , Atkinson. .< •» Ballinger. , , Bennett. Carey. Chapman. I Cohen. Cooper. , Frost. i Higginbottom. Hume. Jensen. , Luke. ,' Monaghan. , M'Larrn. i M'Kenzie, L. M'Kenzie, E. Keardon. Shirtcliffe. Smith. Trevor. Against the Council of Churches proposal:' —Messrs. ' Casey. Devine. , Dykes. , Fletcher.' Fullford. Hampton. Morrah. Noot. Seaton. No replies received.—Messrs. ■ , Carmichael. Fitzgerald. Hindmarsh. I MAYORAL CANDIDATES. Mr. Bolton and the Hon. J. Bigg endorse the Council's proposal. MR. FISHER SAYS:Sir,—l havo to acknowledge receipt of your circular letter to Mayoral candidates. This is my answer.—That I regret I cannot 6ee mv way to comply with your request that the, Town Hall and all other halls under the Council's jmisdictinn should be closed on Sundays, except tor entertainments held for oharitnblo purposbs. As I have aheady said publicly, I do not agree with music-hall ana biograph entertainments on a Sunday, but l have no objection to good music of a sacred and. elevating character. . The programmes should be submitted to the Council, which shouldj 'I presume, consult the Gity Organist, and there must bo a stipulation that every advertisement of Sunday Concerts should state that they are absolutely free. ■ f I am as much against the Continental Sunday as. your Council, but let me point out that if you succeed in closing the Town Hall you will not get fivfl per cent, ot the Sunday Con-cert-goers ir.to the Churehfc, whilst wdu will force hundreds ot people to.spend their time less profitably than in tetening to good music I want to see a good, clean, healthy, vigorous Christian community, to ha\e to disbelieve that your proposal is a step in the right direction. Yours faithfully, (Signed) F. M. B. FISHER. MR. NEWMAN SAYS:Dear Sir,—l find that Parliament, when passing the Municipal Corporation Act, inserted a special clause allowing Sunday Concerts, under safeguards to be provided by the City Council. Under this Act the Town Hall was built by the citizens, all of whom are taxed for it. It is the common property of all, not of sections, for the uso of all. / 1 lor years past bands, subsidised out of tlio rates, have plajed music in our parks on Sundays. I cannot, therefore, sea why music should not be played on Sundays in tho Town Hall—tho People's Drawing-room— as well as" in the open air in parks. I am not prepared to shut tho people out of their own Town Hall on Sundays. Im am prepared to maintain tho present bylaw and to resist any nttompt to widen it, Every programme is submitted to tho City Organist, and approved by the Town Clerk, all unsuitable items being struck out. You speak of quiet homes, and the "Cultivation of ideals." Unfortunately there are many people who have no quiet homes, and their sole chance of "culthating ideals" is listening to music in their own Town Hall. I am as.strongly opposed as you aro to the introduction of a Continental Sunday, and in private have always 'donn my beet to avoid and, shall always do so. A. K. NEWMAN. Mr. Wilford refused to reply. ARTHUR DEWDNEY, Eon. Secretary Council of Churches. , 7567 BOROUGH OF ONSLOW. TO THE ELECTORS OF NGAIOWARD; T ABIES AND GENTLEMEN.-I havo plea■Li mre in announcing thnt I am a Candidate for the above Ward, and should you do mo the honour of electing rue to represent you it will bo my'endeavour to promote tho welfare of tho Borough. Yours faithfully, 7568- - - - ATHOL BANNISTER,