Throwing away the Liberal Chance at Napier.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume IV, Issue 509, 20 September 1890, Page 2

Throwing away the Liberal Chance at Napier.

THE WAY THE CAT JUMPS I (SBBCUt. I'o 188 STANDARD.) Nafibb, last night. For some time past there has been much interest here as to the candidates for Parliamentary honors. Many of the better class of Liberals here object to the putting forward of one who has not only been defeated four times elsewhere, but is etill an undischarged bankrupt. Up to lately the seat wasregard»d as a certainty for the Liberal Party, but now a big split in the camp is threatened, white the Tories 100 It on and laugh oonsumedly. Mr Gannon, by advertisement in yesterday morning's Hawke's Bay Herald, announced himself as a candidate for the Napier el ctorata. The Herald ridiculed tlie candidature and characterised it as presumptuous. The News, which represents the Labor side, said that the announcement came to it as a great surprise, as it was olearly understood that no action would be taken until after a meeting of the Liberals’ Association this evening.

The following paragraph from a Napier correspondent, was in type before the receipt of the above telegram s>— It i, now reported in Napier that the Intention is for Mr Gannon to put up for the Hawke’s Bay seat, io opposition to Captain Russell, and not for the Napier seat in op- , position to Mr Ormond. Mr Bearden, so report has it, is merely aotlng the part of a " warning pan” for Mr Gahnon,