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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1774, 7 March 1906, Page 62

In the matter of personal defeats at the poll, the heart knoweth its own bitterness. There is one caso which, politics apart, cannot fail to command sympathy (writes Mr W. H. Lucy, in the “Sydney Morning Herald”). More than two years ago Mr Rupert Guinness, son and heir of Lord Iveagh, undertook in the Unionist interest to contest Haggerston. Being resident in London, he, with tho assistance of his motor car, had full and convenient opportunity of wooing his constituents, albeit they were located at East End. But Mr Guinness, accustomed to do things thoroughly, did not depart from habit in this matter. He rented a house among his constituents, plainly furnished it, and at tho close of his honeymoon, which brightened the early stages of his candidature, thither took his young bride, daughter of the Earl of Onslow. By motor car it was not a far .pry from their residence in Grosvonor Place. But the difference of the habitations, their surroundings and associates, was wide as the distance betw'een two hemispheres. Lady Gwendolen entered with enthusiasm into her husband’s plan, and save for an occasional visit to Ireland or the Continent, no week passed without some portion of it being spent in their Shoreditch home. Being there, they mixed on friendliest terms with their neighbours. and made themselves intimately acquainted with the life and longings, the struggles, the defeats, the occasional triumphs, of households where a steady income of £1 a. week means sustenance, and 30s spells affluence. The end of the story appears in Tuesday’s polling, which left the son of one of the wealthiest peers of the realm at the bottom of the poll, giving the first place to honest, homely Mr Greiner. There is to-day a comer house to let in a comparatively quiet street in Haggerston. The timber export industry at the Thames is growing brisker. The barque Laira has just .sailed with 330,000 ft of white pine for Melbourne, the Handa Isle and the Sehvyn Craig are loading timber for Australian ports, the Uma is expected at any moment, and will load for Sydney. Mr J. J. Bourke has been elected a director of the Wellington Steam Ferry Company, vice Mr F. G. Dal me 11, who has left for a trip to England-