To-pay the election of a Licensing Commit tee for Oanuru takes place, and tew events, excepting the election of a member to the House of Representatives, have created st much interest and excitement as this is doing! There has been a good deal of quiet canvassing by supporters of both parties, and both parties are, as s usual with both parties in a great public question, confident of putting their candidates in. Many prohibitionists however, so far as the word applies to their chauccs, seen to think "confideut" too weak an expression and substitute for it the word " certain." It is certain the temperance party were never stronger, and if they do not secure a victory it will not be owing to want of sympathy for the cause they have taken up. There are differences of opinion as to how total prohibition will affecc Oairaru financially, but this question has been pretty well threshed out, and it is hardly worth while referring to it. We have already dealt with the moral aspect, and we do not intend to go over the same ground again. What wo would enjoin on ratcpayeis is to vote. There ure only a little over GOO names on the borough roll out of a total of over 1,100 ratepayers, and tins fact deprives many of the oppoitunity of \oti.ig The qupslion is a large one, one wotth taking considerable interest in, and we hope that every rate payer who can wiU exercise the privilege of voting. So fat i<s we can gather the platform of the two parties will be as follows: The niodei ate party are piepaicd to close a limited number of hote's which m.iy be deemed to be unnecessary ; the prohibition isl party will abolish the sale of drink at all hotels and stores in the boiough, giving the licensees one yeai's grace. The polling booth is at the Uorough Council Chambers, and the polling takes place between the hours of 9 a m. and 6 p iv.
