MOUNT BANGER.

Evening Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2454, 28 December 1870, Page 2

MOUNT BANGER.

(from ax occasional correspondent.) We were recalled to the fact that election time is approaching—a fact rendered less interesting to us than to some others, owing to the certainty of Mr Bradshaw’s return—by the recent appearance of placards announcing that Mr F. Dean, of Switzers, would, on the evening of Saturday, 17th December, address the electors of the Teviot. Our curiosity at any rate was excited—nor was this excitement diminished —by reports which began to arrive of wild play-actor looking men passed on the road. The hour arrived, and with it the man who, after the preliminary sparring and difficulty inseparable from the election of a chairman for a Teviot meeting, delivered an address probably unequalled in the annals of electioneering for absurdity, bad taste, and utter irrelevancy. Not content with an auto-biogra-phical sketch of his infantile years, from which I will not swear that the customary “christened, vaccinated, and had the meazles,” was absent, he entertained the audience with some profound remarks on the thirteen-and-sixpenny lodgings and the land question. In short, he seemed convinced that vulgar "buffoonery was the only way to win the hearts of a mining constituency—a mistake he shares in common with several other wpukl-be senators. Asa matter of course he endeavored to set class against class, such a proceeding being natural to the Colonial demagogue. The nmholders—the “kawpitalists" as he styled them, were painted in the darkest colors, the sum of their iniquity being completed by the horrible atrocity of impounding S’. Dean’s pony. The whole exhibition would in short have been laughable had not the reflection that some prospect of “ fluking ” in induced such men to come forward given rise to wore serious thoughts. I have little space for general items, so I shall string together in one sentence all the leading memorabilia of the district. The river continues too high for mining on the beaches or for dredging. The crops arc looking pretty well, hut do not promise a yield equal to last year’s harvests iug. Shearing operations are being carried ©u briskly in the adjoining sheds ; Messrs Cargill and Anderson have secured their clip. The holiday season will not be without rejoicings, as we are promised hackraces and athletic sports at Moa Flat on Boxing Day. These are the topics which agitate our quiet community; hereafter I may dilate on some of them.