THE ELECTION TIP.

Evening Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2245, 18 July 1870, Page 2

THE ELECTION TIP.

To the Editor of the Evening Star.

Sir, —A a there ia a deal of excitement and speculation as to who will be elected Mayor, I may be pardoned for offering to the public my prophetic opininion in reference to the matter. sThere are four aspirants to the proud and exalted position of Mayqr. I will commence with

Mr Reynolds—Hp is a very cautious gen : tleman, and is considered by most people as a shrewd and business -like person, but as he holds a multiplicity of offices, and is not a member of the Council, I think I am justified in placing him last. Mr Millar, F.S.A., is well known as a very scientific engineer (Sec Men of the Times) ; he is a lengthy speaker, overflowing with the flowers of language, &c. (vide your contemporary’s report of his speech on Saturday evening last), but his popularity has not increased since the sudden death of the old Town Board some years ago. I will therefore place him third. Mr H. S. Fish, jun., the eminent pai iter, is also a candidate. His paintings have been the pride of the inhabitants of New Zealand for years, and some of His pictures brought most fabulous prices during the visit of His Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh. Ho is a powerful speaker, but his ungraceful attitudes and his want of knowledge to the proper use of the letter “hj ” go greatly against him. He loses his temper, and so makes many enemies. I will place him a good second. Mr Griffon —the last, but not the least, both in rize and importance—is a wellknown commercial man. lie was respected in Victoria, from which Colony he camo h«re some eight or nine years ago, and has been in the Town Board and City Council ever since. His kind and .courteous manner (which seems natural to Irishmen) has won him a host of friends, and I believe I am right in placing him first —our future Mayor, Yours, &c., Q. Dunedin, July 18,