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King Country Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 407, 25 October 1911, Page 6

The approaching elections are throw ing a heavy shadow over the work of Prliament. Sir John Findaly ig spending a lot of his time in Auckland, trying to persuade the electors of Parnell that they may with advantage be represented in the House by a Wellington man. The Hon. T. Mackenzie is in South Taranaki teaching his grandmother —we mean telling the dairy farmers that he will put ihem up to all sorts of wrinkles in dairying if they will make him their member. The rank and file of the party in the House were too tired to discuss the Estimates last week, or too eager to get through with them, so that the other fellows might not steal a march on them in the constituencies. With Sir Joseph Ward on the sick list, and the vacancy in the cabinet caused by Mr Fowlds' retirement, unfilled, the work of the Government has fallen on Sir James Carroll, that good-natured party slave who is always ready to fill a gap, tha Hon. J. A. Millar, the Hon. R. McKenzie and the Hon. A. T. Ngata.—Taranaki Budget. Excellent photographic reproductions of Te Kuiti appear in the current number of New Zealand Town and Country Life, a well-written Auckland weekly journal. Rora street, Te Kuiti Cadets, new Presbyterian Church, limestone quarry, and the Maori pah are the most notable of the pictures shown. These afford an excellent indication of the rise and progress of the most progressive inland town in the North Island.