POLITICAL POT POURRI.

Observer, Volume 3, Issue 66, 17 December 1881, Page 217

POLITICAL POT POURRI.

—A Mayor's Xest .— City Ea4 for J. M. Clark. • -What everybody could have fove-Toted. — The return of Mr Tole for Eden. -Tin' expulsion of the religious orders. — Monk f hrown out of Parnell.

- -Tlioiv is a saying, '• A> proud as a peacock," l)ui, there's no doubt, thai; Peacock liad some Rws-ou to be proud. --The fight between Morris ami Stewart at Tauranga was very close, but "old associations" proved too much for " special settlements." —It is said that Alison doesn't feel mucli out ofj'o'iil over his defeat. His enemies say he is dead .sure at slaughtering sheep, but he is a poor hand at "rats." But it is ungenerous thus to taunt a fallen foe. Peace to his h as7i.es ! — By his resignation, G-avrard has established his claim to having a glimmering of common sense, and has given an apt illustration of the saying, " it's a well-bred dog that goes downstairs when lie sees preparations made for kicking him down." R.I.I 3 . — Yesey Stewart made a mistake in using the 'Baij of Plenty Times so unscrupulously for election purposes. Tt prejudiced many possible supporters against him, as also did the foolish manner in which lie perpetually inveighed against Morris and Kelly. — Mr Buckland's case is a very hard one. Two young men residing in the Eran'din district Avere going to vote for him, but their father fell ill — dangerously ill — and they were unable to leave him. This defection turned the scale of the election in Mr Harris' favour. % — The belt ing on the Tauranga election was the heaviest ever known on the East Coast and proved to be well justified by the closeness of the contest. One of the hist wagers taken was laid by the redoubtable Peter Grant, who betted £3 Morris would beat Stewart by 30 vote*. Peter loses his money. — The flowery candidate from the "Poet's Corner," Ofrahuhu, has got completely " cornered." He has discarded Noah Webster, and hie favourite lexicographer now is Walker (commonly called " Hookey.") It is currant\j reported that the mighty McGree intends to "go for" the editor of the Star with a horse-whip.

— Poor Vosey Stewart! to be bowled out by Te Puke was " Xoinesis" indeed. People in Auckland can't understand it. — Duder was offering 2 to 1 that Hurst would poll more than Alison at the Devenport Hall and found several persons fool enough to take him \ip. — Dr Wallis has come to the conclusion that " the heathen Chinee is peculiar," or, at any rate, that peculiar views regarding the heathen Chinee are rather damaging to a candidate's chances. The doctor should go in training f or "Wuitemata at the next election. Nothing like a Scotch terrier for "rats!" — Mr Dargaville was wounded at being classed as a Ministerialist, and asked the Star to announce him with a big, big O. But "surely the lion, geni leman had forgotten that at his recent meeting lie declared himself to belong to no party, and said tli at "ho was a Dargavilleite." Oh! the Dargavillain. He ought to be written down with a " big big D." — -Vescy Stewart would have polled a far larger number of votes at Ohiuomutu if he had treated the populace there more respectfully. Instead of talking to them seriously and discussing the affairs of the district, lie made a rollicking after dinner kind of speech evidently thinking it wasn't worth his while to waste much brain power on such a god-forgotten locality. — The N.Z. Herald seemed at last to be shamed into admitting the superior ability of Sir Greorge Grey and his paramount claims on the electors of City East, and on Friday morning gave a " straight tip" for the " old man eloquent." Granny tried to come the impartial man-on-the-fcucc sort of policy, and wouldn't presume to advise ! oh, no ! The Star, on the contrary, went in for uncompromising partisanship — perhaps just a loetle on (lie principle of the pious Yankee editor : — " It ain't by principles or men My prudent course is steadied, I scent wliicb pays the best, and tlien Go into it bald-headed !" At any rate, it is worthy of remark that all the men whose claims were advocated by the evening paper, proved to be the chosen of the electors.