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Auckland Star, Volume IV, Issue 1201, 28 November 1873, Page 2

As.we yesterday prognosticated Pamellis going in for a contested election for tho fun of the thing. If the Parncll electors like that sort of enjoyment no one would have any grounds for objecting providing Paradl could be mado to pay tlie piper. Nobody has the least idea that the Knight of the " tough mutton" has any chances of.success ; but as the contest gives him an opportunity of "hairing i 3 hideas lion hedjucation," and to tae residents in this peaceful little hamlet a chance of increasing the rapidity of their pulsations by a littlo healthful excitement, we suppose the country must be content to provide the cost. At the same time it is not creditable to Parnell that ti is the only district in the province that has got up a contest for mere contention's sake, ' and it is a pity that a decent tradesman like

Mr Caleb Wood, against whom nobody has a word to say, unless that his chops are stringy, should allow himself to be made a fool of i'ov the mere diversion of his fellow villagers. There is no one, of course, without the sparks of ambition in his bosom, and the " large and influential" requisition which Caleb says he has received has no doubt acted as a bellows to blow these into a blnze. Ho says he will destroy the Slaughter-JTouse and build another and considering the ill odou 1 emanating from this provincial institution, we have no doubt tint Caleb will have the prayers of all good butchers. But 'we i do think that this little object of his ambition might bo attained by arrangement, and as the two other candidates go in for destroying provincialism root and stump, they might give him a pledge that they shall begin with the Slaughter House. We would adviso CiJeb to make this arrangement and setire. With Mr Header Wood and Mr Tonics, as its members in Council, that electorate will have aa faithful and as vigorous representation aa will bo possessed by any other section oE the province ; and we do not hositato to say that Mr Caleb Wood will bo a better and a happier man with his cleavci' and his block than in spending his days and nights for naught, legislating and striving for a thankless and a wicked and a perverse generation.