The Poverty Bay Herald. AND East Coast News Letter. PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING. MONDAY, AUGUST 25, 1879.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 872, 25 August 1879, Page 2

The Poverty Bay Herald. AND East Coast News Letter. PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING. MONDAY, AUGUST 25, 1879.

I*r will seen el_te where that Captain Porter has sacrificed his chance of being returned as a member for the East Coast, by announcing his retirement from the contest. The motive which has actuated Captain Porter is a very honorable one. He saw that it was the intention of all the candidates to go- to the poll, and that if he stood the voting would be so split up that all chanca. of putting :-& local man m would be lost. It is tolerably certain that Captain Porter would have headed the local candidates ; bnt still, as each of the others had their own friends and supporters, the votes would have been so divided that the Tauranga candidate would have had a much larger probability of being returned. Even now, if Mr. Woodbine Johnson and Mr. Allan McDonald fight against each other they will, by the splitting of votes, be doing their utmost m the interests of Captain Morris : at any rate that appears to be the general opinion out of doore. However, Captain Porter has made the first sacrifice, and this should not be " forgotten, if, at another time, and with a distinct electorate for Poverty Bay, the retiring candidate should again come forward to seek the suffrages of the electors.