West Coast Times. AND WESTLAND OBSERVER. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1863.

West Coast Times, Issue 944, 1 October 1868, Page 2

West Coast Times. AND WESTLAND OBSERVER. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1863.

The candidates for seals in. the Borough Council are prosecuting their canvass. I vigorously. The numerous meetings' that are being held nightly tax our reporting powers to the utmo.-t. When there aye nine candidates in the field, and when every candidate holds about three meetings on eacli night, none of them can expect to find themselves fully reported in the next morning's issue of the paper. We have done outbest to give publicity to the views of ull the candidates. Hat we cannot do impossibilities. We think, moreover, that the system now being adopted of addressing the electors in sections is one open to very serious objection. Knuning about from one public-house to another, wherever little audience can be gathered, is in many respects an objectionable mode of electioneering. In the present case it is being- carried to an extreme. A candidate runs from one hotel Jto another. Ho stands any amount of political chaff and badgering, and he gets a resolution pn^od to the effect that he is a fife and proper person, &c. If we were a sensible people, wo should abjure all tlios-o little suburban publichouse meetings, and let the candidates meet the electors in open and free conference at one ' general assembly, where the whole question of Municipal policy might be discussed. Such a course would be more just to the candidate?, and more satisfactory to tl*e public.