VOTING CONTEST

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 7021, 8 January 1910, Page 14

VOTING CONTEST

Busy. Busier. Busiest. Busy times yesterday. Busy candidates and busier Contest Manager. Busy postal officials kept pouring tbo coupons along. Busy clerks kept piling up tbe records for a record day. Busy bowlers bowl next week. Candidates are making good beads by bowling along tbo votes. Busy volunteers will got ready for Kitchener, but busier vote-catchers will beat tho whole Defence Department in raid organisations for that world’s tour. Business lias been good with the corporation. They have just beaten tho populace for a record tax-collection. Total collection to date .£IIO,OOO. Some of oar candidates are over the hundred and ten thousand already. Slaughtermen contemplate striking. Poca it not strike the slaughtermen that It would be bettor to negotiate, propitiate and then agitate—for votes for one of their number to take tbe world's tour.

Notice tho pleasant, affable countenance of His Excellency, 'William Howard Taft, President of tho United States, as ho smiles a welcome upon our candidates thie morning. Ho smiled his way into the hearts of tho American x>cople, and they smiled him into the Presidential chair. Tho ©mile of this genial servant of cur Yankee cousins awaits_ the fortunate candidate, who can smile enough votes out of the people of New Zealand to send him or her around the world. " Humanised milk ” is the way an enterprising Wellington dealer characterises the life-giving lacteal fluid he dispenses daily to his customers. We would recommend copious draughts of this "humanised milk" to some of our candidates, as it may have a tendency to humanise the milk of human kindness while soliciting votes. A number of unsigned free vote coupons have lately been received by this department. No coupon will be Woted unless tho instructions are complied with, so be careful.

The next instalment of portraits of tht* candidates will appear shortly. if you would like yours published, kindly send it along.

As the candidates climb, so doas our circulation climb. The vote as published this morning indicates a general booed all along tho line since the last declaration. And, think of it, tho contest has jikit commenced to boil.

Tho "Times" scored a "scoop" Thursday morning by sending a special representative Lo Bluff and issuing a full and first detailed account of the wreck ox the Waikare. Nothing is impossible to the enterprising, ■wide-awake newspaper, and tho same rule will apply to ol hustling candidates who will tscoop •their less enterprising competitors.

The task of officially observing the eclipse of the. sun May »t]i has been left entirely to Australian scientists, which is a great compliment. Ihe ta&k ol winning tbe world’s tour is lelt entirely to tbo candidate who works, and works, and works. There is no such thing as eclipsing a worker.

All candidates should &o.e that subscribers who cave them a ure requested to renew before the time expires, thus getting the votes the renewal entitles.them to. Don't overlook your renewals.

Mr J. P. Morgan now controls a capital of .£600,000,000 American, money. Uo ■would suggest that New Zealand's tourist tali the matter over with Mr Morgan while in New York, and secure at .£500,000,000 for investment in the uominion.

Road tho liberal offer made by Mr Geo. X. White, the enterprising jeweller, to tho head of this Department. Any candidate whb registers 3000 votes and under this morning is in on this proposition. Tho winner of this munificent gift will not only bo the possessor of a ■five, guinea prize, but should bo among the leading candidates on the morning of February Ist. Get real busy.

Three now candidates announce themselves this morning. Mr Vornon Haydon and Mr C. Chapman, of AVelliugton, nnd Mr P. Robertson, of Gladstone. Here are three fearless candidates, who are not frightened to enter at this late day, and they will doubtless be heard rfrom before the finish.