The Poverty Bay Herald AND East Coast News Letter. PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING GISBORNE: SATURDAY, DECEMBER 7.1881.
As the day for the polling nears upon us, the excitement continues to intensify. The friends of the respective candidates leave no efforts untried in their attempts to send their man to the top of the poll ; and on the whole, considering that party feeling runs high and several canvasses have been very fairly conducted. Each candidate is impressed with a belief that he will be the winning man, and in this belief his friends and supporters are equally sincere. The effort now being made by those desirous of seeing a supporter of the present Ministry returned to the Assembly as against one confessedly opposed to thorn, lies in the direction of uniting their voting powers and giving all the strength they possess to the one most calculated to do them good service. This attempt, however, is likely to fail for want of common agreement as to which one of them should be selected. There is such a sanguine feeling among the trionds of the~Governrneut candidates, that they will not allow two of them to retire, and so make the third man a certainty. Anything that may now be spoken from the platform or addressed through the columns of a newspaper, is likely to have but small effect. The electors have now made uj> their minds who they will go for, and it is only something which at oresent cannot bo reckoned upon that will brin* about any change. Mr. Gannon addresses the electors tonight, and Captain Porter for the last time to-morrow ; the latter candidate having engaged both halls in order to exclude the other candidates from speaking. If we be not wrongly informed, thiselectioneering manoeuvre will not serve the purpose intended, as there are other places which can be secured, notably an open uncovered space in one of the side thoroughfares. The contests so far have been admirably conducted. Let us trust they will terminate in a like manner.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VIII, Issue 1495, 7 December 1881, Page 2
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337The Poverty Bay Herald AND East Coast News Letter. PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING GISBORNE: SATURDAY, DECEMBER 7.1881. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VIII, Issue 1495, 7 December 1881, Page 2
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