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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 868, 20 August 1879, Page 2

The Bay of Plenty Times is giving deep attention to the coming elections, the editor appearing to interest himself about that end of the electorate. He says the first shots in the coming battle in the East Coast Electoral District having been fired by Captain Morris, Mr. J. Woodbine Johnson, and Mr. Allan McDonald, Captain Porter, who states that he has desired to represent this constituency in Parliament, has donned his armour and entered the lists, and another gentleman from the same neighbourhood, Mr. A. F. Hardy, is also emulous of carrying off laurels in this political campaign. The atmosphere of Poverty Bay must have a wonderfully exhilarating effect on the minds of local politicians, as no less than four gentlemen there are ambitious of Parliamentary honours, and, if report speaks true, there are several others who would not object to undertake the responsibility, while only one candidate from this district has come forward to woo the electors. By the way, Mr. Hardy must oounfc on strong support from the Poverty Bay electors, as he has not condescended to solicit the suffrages of the people of this district. Captain Morris and Mr. Woodbine Johnson come out in the Opposition interest ; Mr. Allan McDonald is expected to take a stand for the Ministry ; Captain Porter comes out as the independent candidate ; as to Mr. Hardy's views, we are left quite in the dark. Among so many candidates, who is to be the man is the question. Unless four can be induced to withdraw in favor of a fifth, we may expect lively times. It will be seen by this that there is only one candidate put forward at the Tauranga. end of the electorate, so that there are now four candidates in the field altogether. There will be, to a certainty, a majority of votes for Morris at Tauranga, and the only chance we have of electing a local candidate is for two to withdraw. Nothing else will answer. Who the two are to be should be decided upon without any loss of time.