THE Wairarapa Age MORNING DAILY. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1911. TO-DAY'S POLLS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10502, 14 December 1911, Page 4

THE Wairarapa Age MORNING DAILY. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1911. TO-DAY'S POLLS.

The rao&t exciting and bitterly-con-tested ediection® which have ever been .fougliit m ihe'history ~cf the pre-' sent gemeration in New Zealand,, will •be concluded to-day, when a second appeal will be imadie in thirty ooit of the eighty electorates', and .the fate of the Continuous Ministry will be determined. At the time of witling, although the issue® are confused in many of tihe electorates, the indication® iaire that tihe Ministry, if it is not absolutely will be unable rto carry on without the assists, airnce of every Lai>o<ur and Independent- member. On the first, poll, the Opposition: secured twenty-five seats, and, (tihe Government tweiuty-one, while an Independent was returned. A carelful analysis of the thirty seats i to .be contested to-day leads <u& to I siupjpcse that tl\e result® will be as ue-arly as possible as Jbediow: —

OPPOSITION,

Wsiitonuata., Pamell, Raglani, Hawke's Bay, Pahiatua, Mastertoai, Wellington East, Wellingtoiu Suburbs, Nelteon, Wairau, Riccartom, Ashlfourtoc?.. Wlaitaki, Ihinjediti, North, Diumedini '(Vest.—Total, 15; ..-grand total, 40.

GOVERNMENT,

Kaipana, Ohinerauri, IrVlaramariino, Otaki, Welltiniigfton Central', Ka'iapoi, Avkhi, Oha'istcfhairoli iNiortliy Qhrisitohurcli East-, Tiraairu, Chalmers, Inver ear gill.—Totail, 12; grand total, 33.

LAiBOUR AND /INDEPENDENT. .-..•0re y-njEgrwnr, W»ngan.ui, Wellington South, Thames.—Gftiand total, 4., ■ . If tJxe.. above! shpul4 prove .correpfc, the would require idle support - of every!,, Laiboair '■staid Imiefpmderut menilbeff - , iogetfher with .tihat ofthe jthree .Native Ijens wEo have atilili to (be elected, to, eniablfe it to rea/tib "itlie mumbensof the Opposdtionii And' what would then happen.? The parties would be equally divided, and anlothetr appeal would require to he made to* the counitiny. It "is hoped, however, j that the Kaiapoi, Wellington Central anid' Wellington South seeufca, wluidh have been given ,to the Government in. (the above may be ' won by the Opposition. 'lf this should happen, the Reform Party would have a working majority, though very little to come anid go upon. The friends of reform—those meai. and women who are striving for the atboliitiioii. of the autocracy wJiidh. at present obtains—should recognise that the struggle is a de®--perate .and momentous one, an.d should strain; every nerve to seou re a 1 victory for pure, cteaaii, <und wholesome government. !Tf; -ihe words " of. one of England's greatest men might be employed, . • "New Zealand expects that every mam will tihis' day do ' his duty."