Election Items

Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 44, 1 October 1887, Page 2

Election Items

♦—— — Of the 95 in the last House more than half , or 58 out of 95, hare be6n returned again, those who retirejl^bx, hare -b>en (defeated being Sir Robert etout/S^ssrs^Sollestoiv Bryce, Mori^omery, W. F^uekiand, T. Grace, Lake, Locke^Tole, Trimble, JLJEL, Fraser, Hursthouse. OonollY, ~i^oasonr^a3lwrigKc^ fatemci^— tiarper, Holmes, Ivess, M'Millan, Eeese, Suiter, Wakefield, Jv (X ,Buck^a,nd. Qore, Hatch. Hirst. Joyce, Donald Eeidy TT. :^W: ThompSpnr^ma Wi-Pere.. | '- - ; ''- *>■ * f i As to. tW .relatipn^pf Freetraders to. Protectionists ;4 in ■-''tihte' 1 new^ -fiouise the Hawke's Bay Herald says:-r-T|ie avowed Freetraders nximo'er 3^^?few have said nothing on the subject, an^ 24 are described as f fin favor of encouraging local industries." That is an ambiguous phrase, which may hide

a backborieless Freetrader, or a'Proteotipnist afraid to boldly dieclare^himBelf. nani /the <■■ Whole^ however, i#i£ majority of these 24 may. be classed as Protectionists of a mild' typo, '; Witting, to consent ib email increases in ' th«r .Customs duties Qn articles which, mjglifc be made in the colony, but not pared to go to the extremes Ballance advocates. f ' ? r; The same .paper remarks :— Failing: & combination between Sir Julius and the Major there will be no difficulty in constituting ;..£ Ministry which Cau; claim a working majority!. Hajor Atkinson certainly could not do so unless he brought to his . assistance a large infusion of new blood, and without Major Atkinson, Sir Julius would be equally powerless to get a following numerous enough to keep him in office. At pfesent, however, Sir Julius seems to hold the key of the position, as his following is compact and devoted; Ererything 'at present seems to point to the conclusion that Sir Julius Vbgel Yogel must to a large extent decide the policy of the new Parliament. ";-

[per united press association.! ; '- . "V^BLia»6i;oN, Sepjtember 30. , ; % The will 9 a.m: on Tueoday, calling; at, Neuf. LPlynaoujih,.^ ;,Nelson,; an(i JSptbn.- r ,Bhft •will react:h^' ab'oui ?p ? m. on Thureiday: spepialV train : f or members leave^" a,t 7 a.mV r on. Wediiesday, axxivihg here at 10 p'.iii.

PViTBDIN, S«pt. 30.

At the, official declaration of the poll for Waihemo, Mr McKenzde stated that one voter had been offered £50 if or Ms vote. . Mr Buckland denied any knowledge of the. affair, and on a paper being handed^ up it appeared that one man had offered an elector 50a to vote lor^1 or^ Mr^ BucMand. " Mr. McKenzie still persisted that, the larger sum had been offered, and stated that' a person in the room had a telegram to that effect. Mr Buekland challenged the person to produce the tdlegraba or stand convicted of being a' liar or' 'coward, but no one responded^ and the> matter droppedv ' v '" v '"-* fi... '•»■■ ' >-•— *~ -■ -■ ■■■'..•.•■■•- ,-