MR SUTTON'S CLIVE MEETINGHOW THEY WORK IT.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3240, 18 November 1881, Page 4

MR SUTTON'S CLIVE MEETINGHOW THEY WORK IT.

[To the Editor of the Daily Telegraph.] Sir, —As some of your readers may not be aware of the little moves and dodges tbat are going od just now, I should like to say how things are beinsr worked. I do not say that Captain Russell himself had anything to do with it, and I do not suppose he would stoop to anything of the sort. It is well known that Captain Eussell has two overseers, who have been for the last month almost entirely employed in overseeing, not sheep, but electors. The Hastings overseer went ■with eight of the station hands; the other overseer was at Taradale, and in conjunction with the gentleman who so misbehaved himself at the meeting there, ■was preparing to convey a load of persons to take their parts. Another party arrived in a coach from Havelock, led by the gallant captain's trainer, and it was confidently expected tbat this array of talent brought into action at tbe expense of some one in Captain Russell's interest would have been able to turn the scale. What a mortification it must have been for the sporting leader to find that the nicely written amendment he had prepared had no chance of passing. I suppose the fact that large employers of labor and owners of race horses are quite prepared to order their employees to attend in a block at employer's expense will not affect the poll much, but it is just as well that the public should know how these little matters are worked.—l am, &c, Clive.