THE GENERAL ELECTIONS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 135, 31 October 1914, Page 4

THE GENERAL ELECTIONS.

LIVELY MEKTING AT PAPuNELL. CANDIDATE TKKIATK'D AS A JOKR By Xclograjili.—Per Press Association. I , Auckland. Last NigM. J "WiHiaiii Storey a young man wh« anouueed hia candidature for tilio Parnell scat had a lively meeting in the I'arneli Hall last frequently drowned 'by interjootuona. He Mas describing how he would hav-o get" tied the strike, when four stale egga 11 >'' V thrown. This iiiduood ticferal of Storey's conmiUttvinen hastily to retire from t'-K 1 lvlati-onn, bin: Storey proeeed*d with Kb apattk amid a utorm of Interjections iiiul a cannonade of egg*, while fireworks wore exploded in the lialj and on tlie pl&tlorni. Eventually while a man was at tempting to inoro a vote of confidence in the rtpmker the audience sang "It's ft long wa,y to Tip]K>rary." When us'ked to vote on the motion [.lie audience it un&Qimuusly' with loud cheering. EYeufcually the cinnlidate waa seised <by eomo of tthe audience and carried down the oireet to a hotel, where the ji<olico Atop&ed 1 further horseplay. MR. HUGHES AT OJvATO. Mr. 1). J. Hughes, the Opposition Mmdidate, opens his campaign to-night at Okato. Tliere promises to bo a good attendance of Bettlerig. .Mr. Hugho*' fixtwee for next week are adwrtised. The New Plymouth iiifetiiij on Wednesday night, is contingent upon the Theatre Royal being available. Th<> Iwildinjf U at present undergoing . considerable .structural alteration's.

In reply to n request from the lagicwood -branch of the Reform League, tfc* Hon, Mr Mousey ibiifc juoniisM that If he himself eftnuot *)>eak in Inglewood one evening before, the election, he will fndeavoui' for one of (his eol!<*£Uoß -to tio sc.