POLITICAL NOTES.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume I, Issue 32, 25 August 1887, Page 2

POLITICAL NOTES.

Mr E. B, Cargill, a candidate for Dunedin Central has ideas of his own. He. thinks there is no need for the colony to oscillate between Vogel and Atkinson, as young men should be found to guide its destinies. Mr Reader Wood is now definitely out for Waitemata. Although a good speaker and well liked, he will have a hard job to oust Mr Monk.

In answer te a deputation from the N.Z. Alliance the other day Sir Julius Vogel said he sympathised with the object, but reminded the deputation that the revenue had suffered to a great extent, and temperance advocates should tell their people not to obfect to a little extra taxation. As to compensation, he felt it might be necessary in some cases to give it. Mr Larnach said if an Act authorising prohibition become law no compensation should be allowed ; if existing licenses were cancelled under the present law they must give compensation. People at the ballot box ought to have the right to declare whether or not the liquor traffic in their districts should cease.

In criticising Sir Julius Vogel's Dunedin address, the Otago Daily Times said things would soon mend “if we have the strength of mind to retrench seriously, ‘ taper off ’ rapidly, live quietly, and avoid stimulants.” Sir Julius, while imparting other lessons to the frothy journalist, says “It must be observed that you frequently fall into error of confusing the editorial ‘we ’ with the ‘ we ’ that is meant to indicate that the editorial writerjs one of the body politic. As you presumably do not intend to attribute to yourself intemperate habitte the ‘ we ’ in the present instance must mean the colonists generally.”