MR BURR AT STONEY CREEK.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 192, 11 July 1884, Page 2

MR BURR AT STONEY CREEK.

Last evening Mr Burr addressed the electors iv tlte school-house, when a crowded attendance, (consisting of six men and fire boys) was present. Mr Edwards occupied the chair. The candidate was m the midst of a most eloquent address when our reporter returned from Mr Frasw's meeting at Ashurst. Mr Burr deprecated "Donald Fraser's Scotch frientb trotting him about m the way they did." He then gave a sketch of the two oiher candidates that he himself came forward to claim. If any medical certificate were obtained they and the greater part of the Ministers and the present members, would be compelled to go to a lunatic asylum. Wait till the "big dog" (Mr Burr) came m amongst them, wouldn't the "little puppies" com* barking around him 1 He had 200 miles of special railway he would construct from Feildiug winch would open up twenty-five millions of acre* of the grandest alluvial deposit that had ever existed. He had been over every inch of it, and had surveyed it, or sketched at, or done something to it, very accurately, Mi' Burr then.

into an appalling array of figures, millions, billions and trillions \mng dealt with by the speaker m a manner that seemed rather to confuse his audience, and our reporter, who began to get uneasy at the task of unravelling the labrynth of pounds sterling and acres promiscuously shaken together by the candidate, hastily gat heredup his note-book and pencil and precipitately took to flight, fearing that if he remained, the fate Mr Burr said was m store for so many others might also be his unhappy destiny.