"INS AND OUTS."

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume I, Issue 49, 4 October 1887, Page 3

"INS AND OUTS."

(From Oar Wellington Correspondent.)

Wklmxgics, yesterday. The elections are over, and the great " Talking Shop," as Carlyle would have called the House, is to be peopled next week. Let us have a look at some of the successful oi bs, and with a side glance here and there at those upon whom Fortune has not thought fit to smile. First of course fot Otago, land Of Scots and sheep, of gold ahd rabbits, home of Stout the Great, that was— and is not How are the mighty fallen ! Alas for thee, Robert. Woe reigns in the precincts of the Dunedin Lyceum. Tne spoilt child of the Southern Athens has been taught a lesson, a lesson which let us all hope may prove of profit to the recipient, for Stout is a man who may yet do great things for the Colony. But if the heart rejoices over Stout’s defeat it sinks with fear at the coming boredom of Fish j Fish the terror of the Dunedin Municipal Council, Fish the brassychfeeked and lotid lunged, Fish the Demagogue, and, alas, now, member for Dunedin South. Holmes, of Christchurch, was bad, Jack Kerr too is at times perfectly unbearable, but Fish can give the other two a long start for flatulent verbosity and noisv vulgarity. You will hear more of Fish ere long. Dr Fitchett is a great gUn in University matters and a rabid Protectionist. He has beaten the Oppositionist Cargill for Dunediti Central, and after all there is not much to be sorry for. Beyond being the son of the man who may be said to have founded the Southern capital, Cargill had little to recommend him to the electors. I am glad to see Mr Barron back for Caversham. Faddy at times he was always a good, useful member and one who could be ill spared, Downie Stewart is returning also, having beaten the mild-mannered somewhat fossilized old gentleman who woe Colonial. Secretary in the old Atkinsonian days, to wit, Mr Dick ; Whilst Larnach, the heaven-born Minister of Mines; the compiler of long reports which no one ever read, and the pocketer of travelling expenses to the tune of 10 guineas a day, will also return, but, thank goodness, not as a Minister. Invercargill is to be thanked for disposing of Mr ’Atch, who as an infliction was only equalled in his own style by the Immortal W. C. Smith ; whilst every skipper, mate, and man of the Union Company will rejoice over the success of their General Manager, Mr Jimmy Sills, for Port Chalmers. If Mr ills devotes the same ability and energy to his parliamentary duties as he has displayed in building up the vast organization of which he is the Colonial head, he should prove an invaluable member. Roslyn has done well in refusing to be charmed by the Chad band-like eloquence of Mr Wm. Hutchison, once the adored people’s William of Wellington, and in returning a good, common-sense, business man like Mr Ross. At Tuapeka Mr Brown has been triumphant, although absent from the colony. It was hardly to be expected that Tuapeka could fceiect the man who floated the Blue Spur Company for them; and so they have stuck to their Brown. At the olassicallv-named, but bleak and rugged Mount Ida, the now celebrated Scobie" Mackenzie, has, to use a vulgarism, waltzed in. Starting at Timaru we come across Mr Turnbull, an old meuber, who has defeated Mr Kerr, the proprietor of the Timaru Herald and South Canterbury Times. Ashley remains true to Mr Pearson, a useful member in his own modest, Unobtrusive wav, whilst Selwyn delerted by clever Mr Wakefield honours itself and the colony by returning the man to whom all are now looking for good work the long absent Sir John Hall. Linwood sends a Ministeralisk in Mr Loughrey, a, partner of Mr Holmes. A many sided man this Mr Loughrey. A Victorian B. A. and L.I ,B. afterwards school inspector, then headmaster of a large Christchurch school, he finally threw atvay the pedagogues position "and joined the Devils Own, and Mr Holmes the lawyer and publican. The three new members for Christchurch South, St. Albans, and Gladstone are all ** old boys ” of the famous school which nestles on the tide of the Avon Christ's College. Mr Percival for Christchurch South is a partner with the well-known Christchurch solicitor, Mr Joynt, is about 30 years of age, was a big supporter of the East and West Coast Railway, and is personally very popular. Mr W. P. Reeves at St. Albans has beaten a mugh better man than himself in the person of Mr Garrick. He is the the son ■of his father Mr Reeves, of the Lyttelton Times, is a prominent footballer and cricketer, and has a remarkable good opinion of himself. As he has unlimited cheek he will doubt-

less go far. Mr Rhodes, at Gladstone, is a strong Oppositionist. He was captain of the school at Christ's College and is aBA. of Cambridge. And he is a .Christchurch barrister—they breed them down there like rabbits—was a member of that well known body the Christchurch Drainage Board, is’ pleasant mannered, no great water, but a gentleman. That worthy follower of Demos, the uneducated, illbred Mr Taylor,-has succeeded in keeping in favor with his constituency, which doesn’t say much for the Sydenham electors. Of two evils, Joyce and Allright, the Lyttleton electors chose the first and lesser, whilst Waimate owing to a debt of gratitude to Major Stewart about that District Bailway affair paid it by returning him a victor. Poor Rolleston has succumbed at Rangiiata to Mr Buxton, and despite his having fallen out of the front rank somewhat of late will be very much missed in the House. Kaiapoi has earned the hatred of the Press gallery occupants in remaining true to the inaudible Mr Richardson, whilst Lincoln preferred the “ jaynial ”

O’Callaghan to the ponderous Mr Saunders. Away to the West across the Southern Alps we find old favourites still mainly supreme. Dick Seddon will drop his aspirates as of yore, but will make none the worse a mining member for that. He understands the requirements of his district, and that is enough for them. One Seddon, however, in the House is enough. At Greymouth coaly Guinness, beat a local newspaper man

named Petrie, after a very bitter combat and some heavy polling. Both Guinness and Grimmond who beat the somewhat unctuous Bevan at Hokitika are Vogeliles and both tire mediocre men. It seems a pity Nelson cannot get a better member than Mr Levestam, whilst Motueka deserve to be disenfranchised for returning such as Jack Kerr, especially when so good a man as Hursthouse was standing. Coming through the French Pass to Picton it is pleasing to get back to good sense in the shape of Messrs Seymour and Dodson, the Marlborough members. Taking the South Island “by and large ” as Mark Twain’s pilot had it, the electors have given strong evidence of there being still a hankering after the flesh pots of Vogelism, but Stout’s mana seems to be decidediy on the wane. The North Island results will form the subject of another article.