POLITICAL GOSSIP.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2145, 18 November 1875, Page 2

POLITICAL GOSSIP.

Mr Swanson lias issued his address to the electors of Newton, and as he finds himself both unopposed and likely to be unopposed, as well as haying received flattering expressions of approval from his constituents, has every right to assume, as he does, that they are satisfied with and will re-elect him, in which case his line of conduct, he informs them, will be the same in the future as in the past. His endeavour will be to get unity of action among the members ; to reduce wasteful expenditure ; to put power in the hands of the people, not to deprive them of it; and to submit all great tneasm*es to them. No one, we should think, would feel disposed to question the advisability of the ends which Mr Swanson has in view ; it is about the means which Mr Swanson will use —or endeavour to use —to procure these ends that we should like to hear something, but about these he is, wisely perhaps, for the present dumb. Mr H. W. Farnall has also issued his address to the electors of Rodney, treating of matters of almost an entirely local character. He alludes to past benefits conferred by him, or through his means, on the inhabitants of the district, and promises a continuance of the same should they be wise enough to re-elect him. These benefits are to take the shape of acquiring a fair share of the Public Works expenditure, and he will see that any monies voted for roads north and south of Auckland are employed for the purpose for which they are intended, and not " frittered away through the Native Departmentor deliberately misappropriated." He gives, as an instance of this misappropriation, the £18,000 expended on the. bridge at Mangare, the cost of which was defrayed out of the £60,000 obtained by him for. the benefit of the districts north of Auckland.' The whole of the \ address is rather too egotistical to be quite pleasant; and in benefiting the district it is evident that Mr Farnall bus not lost sight of the glory accruing to the benefactor. Mr Clark has again found it necessary to correct a rumor that he will stand for City East in opposition to Sir George Grey, and distinctly denies that if he appears at all, he will appear in any ranks othcrthan those of the independent members. We hear that another candidate is forthcoming for the Coleridge district, which increases the! number to seven for the seat. Mr Josiah Birch of Kaiapoi is rumored as likely to oppose Mr J. E. Brown for the Ashley district; and the Hon. G. C. Bowen and his opponent Mr Beswick are canvassing Kaiapoi. From Wellington comes the news that Mr Wood has accepted a requisition to contest Mataura, and Mr : Colenso has issued an address to the-: electors of Napier. »||| i