ELECTION NEWS.

Observer, Volume X, Issue 622, 29 November 1890, Page 7

ELECTION NEWS.

* Ambury much obliged to you,' as Goldie said when the Mayor of Newton asked him to take a seat.

Adam was * a good man in bad company,' after Old Nick got into the Garden ; but Adam got chucked out, all the same.

There were nearly a dozen lawyers at a recent politioal meeting at Devonnort. If the Old Gentleman had oast his net then, whaf; a haul he would have made !

IVfany people went to the Temperance Hall on Tuesday night expecting to he amused by Harrow ; but they were horrified at his device fo»* New Zealand's flag.

The "Knights of Labour will not admit a lawyer to their grand organisation. fW they in oonscience send to Parliament men whom they so deeply distrust ?

The Bay of Plenty Times says:— 'We have received the following telegram from Mr John Leydon, auctioneer, Auckland :— ' Mean standing for Te Aroha. Will advise you shortly.'

Great excitement was caused at Mr Greenwood's Kingsland meeting 1 when that gentleman offered to disclose the names of several who had been bribed on behalf of his opponent.

The vote for the third Labour candidate resulted : — Napier, 5; Thompson. 6; Desmond, 8; Farnall, 10. .FarnaH thereupon announced himself, and then the committee fixed on Napier.

Dr. Wallia is running under the patronage of the Employers' Association, Anti-Home Rule Party, etc. He is a good honest man for all that, and a better Labour oandidate than any lawyer poeaibly can be.

Mitohelsonian ' barraobers ' who rolled up in full force at Waite'a Hall on Tuesday night, with the intention of upholding their champion and disturbing the meeting, were completely annihilated by Mr Bees.

Mr Ewington, the leading Mitohelsonian at Waite'a Hall on Tuesday evening laat, out a sorry figure under the lash of Mr Roes, while Mr Shepherd's hair, it is said, was seen to spring forth and stand bolt upright.

Editor Mackenzie, who illuminates the far north by publishing verbatim reporta of affiliation proceedings, wan seriously »Rfcod to stand for Parliament, when he politely said to the depntation, ' Top don't think I am such an infernal fool as to allow politic* to rain me ?'

Mr G. N. Brasaey looked rather sick at Palmer's meeting last Monday. He rose, and after a somewhat lengthy peroration, enquired, with considerable indignation, whether the oandidate wouM move for the repeal of that inquitous measnre, the Codlin Moth Act. Imagine his distrust when the candidate replied that he could not, as the Act had never been passed !

The proposer and seconder of the vote of confidence, and the principal speakers at Mr Palmer's Devonport meeting were lawyers. The reason was seen at once, when the candidate announced himself an opponent of Sir George Grey's Law Practitioners Bill. The gentlemen of the long robe are always disinterested in their actions — very much so.

At Mr Jackson Palmer's meeting on Monday evening last, ' Tim Doolan ' asked, amidst laughter, whether the candidate would be in favour of sending a specialist to Berlin to try the Koch oure. Mr Palmer, in reply, said he had not thought of the matter, bat firmly believed the cure to be a great one— as great a cure, in fact, as Mr Doolan himself. Cnr-ions question, eh .'

Mr Napier has proved rather unfortunate in his first attempt to seoure the Catholic vote. As all the world knows, he was recently married to a Protestant lady by the Anglican Bishop of Wellington. Thinkiner to remove any prejudice on this score, he escorted his fair bride to St, Patrick's last Sunday week ; but unfortunately for him, Bishop Luck, who was conducting: the service, devoted his sermon to a denunciation of ' mixed marriages.' Thfi words evidently struck home, for the candidate left before the service concluded.