ELECTION NOTES.

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 208, 25 June 1887, Page 1

ELECTION NOTES.

Intending candidates are apparently disinclined to annoimce themselves until the boundaries of the various districts under the new Representation Act are definitely declared. Present indications point to the conclusion that there will be an exceptionally lcirge number of candidates for the various seats.

ftodney. Mr Jackson Palmer has taken time by the forelock. He definitely announces himself as candidate for the Rodney seat, and requests the electors to meet him at Warkworth on Saturday week.

City North. Mr H. W. Farnall has announced himself for this seat in opposition to Mr Thomas Thompson, the present member.

Eden. There appears to bo some doubt whether Mr Frank Lawry will not stand for the Eden seat, and not for Franklin North.

Waifcato There were about sixty persons present* at Mr Russell's address to the electors in the East Hamilton hall on Tuesday nighfc. Mr Russell denied that he was a nominee of the Government, and was understood to incline towards a coalition that would include Stout and Ballance, He believed the civil service was overmanned, and he reckoned he could save from the civil list expenditure an annual sum of L 2 12,000. Retrenchment, he believed, might also be made in the education vote. He advocated tlie establishment of agricultural colleges, and oxpressed himself in favour of Vaile's scheme of railway reform as financially sound, although he did not believe in all the details. He would, if elected, advocate a vigorous protection of those industries that would be fostered by a protective tariff. To his mind it appeared that the systom of the past had increased the prosperity of the large centres of population at the expense of the country districts. Since 1882, the value of property in Auckland had increased by four millions sterling, while in the Waikato it had decreased by half a million. At the conclusion of the speech a vote of thanks to the candidate was accorded on the motion of Mr W- A. Graham.