WAITAHUNA.

Evening Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2472, 18 January 1871, Page 3

WAITAHUNA.

(FROM A ('ORRKKI’ONDHXT.) Fine times these ! glox’ious work electioneering, especially when a brewer is cau-vasser-iu-chief. All the “swiping” fraternity are in ecstacy, and vow they will stick to Mr Reid through thick and thin. What with beer and condescension we are of course very enthusiastic in the city of eels. It is such an honor to have a real live Mayor hob-nobbing quite sociably with one, or a veritable M.P.C. and M.H.R. interspersing an account of “’Owl did it in the ’ouse” with welcome “shouts.” Certainly there are a good many who keep quiet, and who, perchance like the parrot, think the more ; but these arc a poor, mean-spirited lot, who pretend to form an opinion of their own on political affairs, and who are impervious to the seductions of that delightful Black Horse baer. The respectable mining community may recollect that Captain Mackenzie and Mr Donald Reid were the two most prominent opponents of a redaction of the gold duty ; hut what does that matter to the noble baud of fossickers, whose sole ambition is gratified by the spiritous propensities of Mr Reid’s supporters. I was rather tickled the other day by observing one of our respected and respectable residents conversing with a few of the high-minded men who form the hulk of Mr Reid’s supporters. He recounted in glowing terms the benefits Mr Macandrew had conferred on the Pro'ince. He stated that the ■whole body of miners owed a deep debt of gratitude to the man who had, in spite of the sneers and oppo ition of an old identity Couuc 1, insistently advocated the right of the mining population to a share of the public expend! tore. He contrasted the ability and the character of the two men, alleging that if Mr Reid was not able to keep the teetotal pledge, he was not likely to keep those made to the electors. He showc lin the clearest manner that Mr Reid was in reality the best friend the squatters had, having secured them over 800,000 acres of the finest land in the country, by the disgraceful compromise entered into in order to retain office during the special session when the resolutions embodied in the Hundreds Regulation Act Amendment Act were chiefly through his instrumentality adopted. All this and more he said far better than 1 c;\n repeat it, and the answer was, “1 say, mate, ain’t you goiug to shout !” V O i/yjixs