POLLING DAY, TUESDAY, 28th NOVEMBER.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 116, 14 November 1893, Page 2

POLLING DAY, TUESDAY, 28th NOVEMBER.

NOVEMBER 20th FIXED AS DAY OF NOMINATION. (PER PREBB ASSOCIATION). Wellington, This Day. The writs for the general election were issued yesterday, and are returnable on December 4th. Nominations must be in not later than the 20th November, and the polling will take place on Tuesday, November 28th. Some Returning Officers are advertising November 21, and others November 20, as the latest day for receiving nominations The Act says seven clear days, and, following the precedent of the Christcburch election case, it is held November 20 is the last day they can legally be received. The Clerk of Writs holds this view. The Returning Officer in Wellington does not expect the result of the election will be known much before 11 p.m. on the night of the election. An extra staff will be engaged, but the enormous mass of now votes will make the counting of the poll a tedious labor. A largely attended public meeting under the auspices of the Wellington Prohibition League was held last night. Addresses were delivered by Sir Robert Stout, and Messrs Fraser and Bell. The meeting, after passing resolutions in favor of direct veto, pledged itself to candidates sup* porting it. Hawera, November 18. Mr B. C. Robbins has announced himself as an Opposition candidate for the Egmont seat. This Day. Mr Cowern, a candidate for Pa tea, addressed a meeting at Eltham last evening. There was a large attendance. He supported the Government, speaking in favor of the land and income tax, and other items of policy, but maintained the right of the settlers to get freehold whenever they wished. He opposed the direct veto, but was strongly in favor of granting aid to Catholic schools. A motion of thanks and confidence was declared carried, practically unanimously. Nelson, November 13. Mr John Graham received a vote of thanks to-night. He declared himself a supporter of the Liberal party. Timaru, This Day. Mr A. E. G. Rhodes addressed the electors of Pareora at Temuka last evening. There were 500 to 600 present. He spoke chiefly on the finances and the liquor control. On these points he occupied an hour. An amendment to a vote of confidence was proposed by two women on the ground that Mr Rhodes opposed their franchise and they were satisfied with the liquor laws. The amendment was carried by 2 to 1 on a show of bands. Temuka is a stronghold of the local prohibition party. Bulls, This Day. Mr Donald Fraser, one of the candidates for the Otaki seat, addressed a large meeting of electors at Sandon on Monday night. He supported the present Government, and advocated graduated reduction in all salaries of civil servants above L3OO a -year. He announced himself, in favor of the direct veto, with compensation to publicans for loss of licenses. At the conclusion of the address a vote of thanks was carried.