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Western Star, Issue 90, 31 July 1875, Page 4

The nopiination of candidates, to repine... sent, the . Wallace .constituency: ip,, the . General Assembly takes, place . at 'Mr . Johnstone’s hqnse, WreyVßush, to-day. o£, the • numherjof,;' gentlqmen we men-, tioned jn o\ir last issue 4 .as probable can-. didates,'only thijeehav? announced tbsir ,* intention or/,contesting the seat—Messrs.. Basstion, Eobert - Cameron,.. asd, v l)r Monckton. M? Basstian's strong squats. to rial, pijoclinties ought certainly to pre-. vent Win. from getting r tHq, support of ; the lona fide settlers of, the district and.? those who have any regard for ,i ts;. £nt,uro . prosperity. Of Mr Cameron . little is . known—at least, in ;the Western—which, is not the lest important—pqrtio.n'pfythe. electoral district ; so that Dr. who is by no. means a stranger in the - political arena, /seems, in our opinion,, to, be. the most desirable.candidate-tq-fill; the. vacancy. In his; address to. theelectors he says that hie is not directly r affected by either mining, agricultuai,, or pastoral pursuits, though strongly interested in the community ait large . a very good card, and one which we. trust he will have an opportunity of" carrying through. Mr Cameron may be . a very, worthy candidate, although, un-. tried ; but on the principle of preferring “the devil we knpw, to the devil .we. don’t,” we say by all mqans support our worthy Aesculapius, and place,him.at ; the, top of the poll on Friday nqxt.