The Feilding Star, Oboua & Kiwitea Counties Gazette. Published. Daily. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1896. THE CHRISTHUECH ELECTION.

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 182, 5 February 1896, Page 2

The Feilding Star, Oboua & Kiwitea Counties Gazette. Published. Daily. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1896. THE CHRISTHUECH ELECTION.

The election contest in Christchurch is being bitterly fought. It may be truly said that as the winners will only be able to sit for one session no very strong men have come forward as candidates. Still, as the result will show bow public feeling runs in the " City of the Plains," the election is of iuajwtance if only in that respect. The has declared he will do his level ,bes£ pff win the seat, so we may expect .that ; ti.ve b ( attle will be manfully fought on ,bpt(i The fetrorite and, perhaps, the .aiosteMgifb^s ,can.<!M4?'£e seems to be Mr Lewis, a Infktiye,c{f<?fcpterbury,1 nfktiye,c{f<?fcpterbury,- who, although new to poUticai life, has already mustered round Mm ,ji jpo-y/^ful phalanx at ardent supporters'. A.s an £#dica-tioo-of the feeling whicji obtains w^> quote t2»e fo&pwjngjfram Tru.th.: — Th?. .Premier may do feiss utmost, but; <\ie will ignominiously fail to prove that the administration for the last few i years has been conducive to the best interest* of tbe country. Unfortu-

s : nately, at the present time there are too many people who have undergone & bitter experience, brought about by shoddy Liberal legislation, and the presence of the whole Cabinet would not convince them that it has been for good The electors • have now had time to consider the matter in all its phases, and we feel convinced that the great majority of them will cast their votes at the forthcoming election agaicst a Government which has done so much harm to the laboring classes. The Premier may talk from now till Doomsday, but he will be unable to remove the deep-rooted feeling which exists that the sooner we get a change of Government the better will it be for the people and the country.