Wellington Notes.

Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 131, 2 December 1896, Page 2

Wellington Notes.

(From Our Own Correspondent.)

What Next Fbiday Will Tell. The war is being waged in earnest in the Empire City, and ten candidates are holding meetings daily. Saturday night witnessed fonr candidates speaking from expresses in the streets and in one in* stance the Seddonite barrackers provided stale eggs to answer the canstic tongue of Mr A. R. Atkinson, with the result that they have helped his candidatnre considerably. However the point of most importance jost now is the final result so far as the colony is concerned. Very full information is to hand of the prospects in every electorate and after a careful comparison of the opinion of those in the know and making due allowances for the sanguine nature of partizans it seems pretty clear that the Opposition will have a comfortable working majority. Three authorities pricked the card to-day, each arriving at his own conclusions from information from the districts. Two of them tipped Opposition 42 seats, Government 32, the other made it Opposition 41, Government 33, the seat in question being Mataura, where a very tough fight will take place between Messrs F. Richardson and Mac Nab In this estimate all dubious seats were credited to Government and all independents counted as GoTernment supporters, and when the results are known on Saturday morning I predict that the result will be very near this forecast. Mr Seddon holds much the same opinion himself, for his family make no secret of it that they anticipate having to pack up shortly.