The Coming Elections.

Kawhia Settler and Raglan Advertiser, Volume IV, Issue 235, 17 November 1905, Page 2

The Coming Elections.

| MR LANG ON TOUR (Bt Telegraph.) WPfeCIAI. TO THE SETTLER. Te Mata, Friday. Mr Lang bad a splendid meeting at Raglan on Wednesday night, and re oeived a vote of thanks and confidenoo. At Te Mata ou Thursday there was a big attendance, the hall beiug filled. The speech was well received and applauded. Votes of thanks and confidence were carried unanimously. Both meeting* were strongly in favour of Mr Lang.. NOTES. Writes for the general election -will be issued on Wednesday, 22ad iust. Residents are reminded of Mr I Lang’s meetings in this district dur- | ing the next few days. To morrow i (Saturday) nigiit ho addresses the elec- ' tors in Scott’s Hall, and at Kiritehere I and Kinohaku on Monday. Ladies ■ are specially invited. — i The supporters of. Mr Lang have i decided t) tender a sapper to him on Saturday night at Mrs Perham’s. We are desired to state that the committee j would be pleased to see as many as i possible present, political opinions notwithstanding. . Writing to a personal friend in the i Kawhia district, Mr D. Parini says : | “ I do not know who you are support- , icg, b-t I should likp you to give Lang j a lift if possible. He is one of the ■j str&ightest me j in the House . a little I bit too unassuming, perhaps, for many ! people who like bluster, but a hard : worker and a quiet persistent grafter ! (or his own district If your requirepnents are not attended to I feel sure it I is not'beoause he has in the slightest I d c gree neglected his share of the I work,” v * Mr James W.Taylor., M.A., addres ‘ sed a meeting in Kihikibi Hall last ; Saturday evening and announced him- ' self a« an Independent candidate for | Waikato. Mr Henry Levien presided. I After relating his career at the Glasgow j University, and in the New South Wales chil service, he touched on current political questions, and went on to state that he had no objection either to Mr Greenslade or Mr Lang, for both of whom he had the highest repeot, but he opposed them because he did not approve of this Party Government—membars quarrelling with one another. He advocated strongly ft combination Government composed of, flay, three or four Ministers from the Government side and a similer number from the Opposition, thus the time of the House would be saved. Mr Taylor, was accorded a vote of thanks and confidence. He intends to speak at each of the principal centres in the course of the next few weeks. Some of the 11 free and independent” will be glad tu learn that under the Electors Act, 1905, a voter who is absent from his electorate may record bis vote just the same. He has to apply on a perseribed form to the registrar of electors for his own district. Applications be made up to and inolud ing day the writs are issued and must be witnessed by a J.P.„ postmaster or other Government officer. The absentee can then vote at the nearest polling place, “Mr W. W. McCardle has now spoken at thirty centres, and has been well received,” says a correspondent of the Sentinel. “ The Liberal supporters everywhere are in good heart, with the farmers throughout giving every assistance to McCardle. His progress throughout the district is one convincing success. People of all shades of political opinion adopt that the district is suffering though neglect, and Mr McCardle is making converts everywhere owing bo the impression becoming fixed on most minds that he would make a more useful and energetic member than Mr Massey.,”