POLITICAL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 214, 10 March 1914, Page 5

POLITICAL.

-MINISTER AT CIiOM'.VELL. By telegraph.—l'ress Association. Cromwell, Last Nijjht 'I lie Hon. W. Fraser addressed a meeting to-night on railway and irrigation matters, lie said it was probable that the line connecting Clyde and Cromwell, a distance of 13 miles, would be completed within the next three y -us. lie legretted Ilia I Mr CI. W. Kussell, speaking at Linwood, had repeated the error made by Sir Joseph Ward at Winton, and actually corrected by liim at Dunedin, in regard to the increase of taxation per head under the present Government. LIBERALS AT KAIAPOI. C'hristchurch, Last Night. Messrs. G. Witty and G. W. Forbes, M.P.'s, addressed a well-attended msetUg at Kaiapoi to-night, and replied to the speech made there recently by the Hon. 1\ M. B. Fisher. Mr Witty made a strong personal attack on Mr. Fisher. Mr Forbes, in the course of his remarks, stated that every effort was being made by the Government to prevent the public using the Public Trust Office on reasonable terras. THE TEMUKA SEAT. Timaru, Last Night. Air Charles J. Talbot, a pooular farmer, of Fairlie, has accepted an invitation to contest the Temuka seat in succession to Mr T. Buxton, in the Liberal interest.