THE GENERAL ELECTION.

New Zealand Times, Volume LV, Issue 2043, 28 October 1893, Page 4

THE GENERAL ELECTION.

WHOLESALE BRIBERY. 11l tlieso days, when electioneering seems to engross the whole time and thought of the community, it is amusing to an onlooker to see the number of . candidates In the field, and to watch the endeavours of each to catch, the vote of the ladies—God bless ’em—who have just received their political birthright. Everyone is confident he can spot tho winners, or says ho can; and if one chose ho could wiu enough new hats during the next few, weeks to tile r him decently for the rest of'bis life. ! ‘‘.A new hat on Sir Robert for first place, or two to one on a seat,” says Smith. “ Nonsense/’ retaliates Jones,, “ho isn’t in the running. Bell will be first.” “ Bell/’ says Smith, “ why, he’s simply nowhere. There Won’t be a tinkle left in him when the numbers go up. Bell, indeed!” “ Stout, Fisher and McLean/’ says A. “ Stout, Bell and Luthie,” echoes B. “ Our Garge, Stout and Fraser,” yells C, and so on,* but always Stout ! Stout I Stout! (and not Guinness’s at that}. The ladies, they are tho key-note this time. Look to your laurels ye vintners and victuallers. No Sunday trading will they tolerate*, no noi 1 the wholesale supply of kerosene 61' painkiller in the whisky bottle to, poor devils who have. already had enough. No more, shirts for sweaters at a “ Colonial Robert ” per dozen for the hiakiug: . Other .piibHcjibiisfe®. will be closed beside those. closed for repairs, or others that don’t pay. The women, the women, toujours les femme. They will be, great regulators and adjusters of •. much that is now askew, but we can forgive’em heartily if they will only let the Education; Act alone, and go in hard' and fetrong (sweet they always will be) for free and : compulsory secular education t There's a sweet little cherub sitting up aloft Watching Over the destinies of, the Waterbary mail; arid sdmetiiries* hot qfttfii, she, sfciltls. him. ah .inspiration/ To make Waterbury capital out of politics; to steal an advertisement in season and out of season, is his business, and, “ Brudder, the good work must go on.” To present everybody who votes for A, B and G with a new Waterbury was his first impulse. This was brilliant, but as everybody on the rolls, whether they voted for the candidates specified or their opponents, whether they voted at all, had any exist* Cnco now or at any previous epoch* whether dead this two years or in gaol of ax sea when the voting oamti 611, would claim the reward, the experiment would have been costly, very; Again, hostile - lawj27" ( oy unsuccessful candidates, and judges who invariably say nasty things, would have relieved him of the profits of the speculation .(if^riy)/ P r perhaps sefid bhn'towumiUate.wbhre atfiplo time in fciib ihieHAte df dkuih-inckihg of stone-breaking is graciously afforded for reflection. No, that would never do. New Zealand is a gambling country, iuy brother; as witness its totaUsator, its art unions in aid of charitable undertakings, and what not. “Eh, there’s the rub, Petrucoio.” Let us, therefore, in Ronie, do as Rome does, and gamble on the coming elections. The inspiration therefore which came direct from the sweet little cherub aforesaid—not one of the newly- enfranchised ones, mind you—is that the Waterbury Watch Company presents one of their new and handsome watches to the two ladies naming the three successful . candidates for Wellington City With the neatest number of Votes recorded in favour of each; That is* to tho girl of adult lady naming the three successful candidates, alid whose guess at the number of Votes recorded by -each is nearest the actual, total polled, oiic bf their hew golden ladies’ Waterbury’s will be presented, and to the lady who names the three successful candidates, and whose estimate of votes recorded by each is second in its approxi.ihation to the actual result. One. of their new silver watches. These watches may be selected by the winners frOm stock held by Messrs Kenipthofne, Prosser and Co., of this city, and to then! all letters must be mailed to arrive before noon of the day preceding the election, the envelopes being marked on tho outside Waterbury competition. The names and addresses of the successful guessers will be published in the New Zealand Times and Evening Post on the,day following the declaration of the poll, and the competition is open to all New Zealand.