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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume II, Issue 187, 12 August 1867, Page 2

The following 'neat thing in paragraphs' appeared in a late issue of the Dunedin Evening Star : — " The following 13 a fair copy of an electioneering bill recently pre-sented-for payment to an Irish member of the English Parliament: " Esq., M.P., to- Dr. February 1867. To plastering all the dead walls of Macroom and its. neighborhood with election placards, To buying a stone an' a-half of paste and covering all 's bills. To scolding and abusing and all the renegades, and going very near beiug sent to Bridewell on account of doing so — £3. [We consider that the charges are, considering the peculiar nature of the service, •very. low. Such a man would, if he consulted his own- interests, emigrate to this province. He would find a ' Provincial Government Agency' far more lucrative, arid, at the same time his ' covering, scolding, and abusing' propensities would have a large field. EVen if he did go 'very near being sent to Bridewell on account of doing- so,'; he would only be the more competent to tread in and follow the footsteps of some persons similarly engaged in this province.] ;