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Evening Star, Issue 2960, 14 August 1872, Page 4

An Electioneering Stor y. —The following story, told by the Tuapeka Times, is too good to keep out of print. During the last general election, one of the candidates for the representation of a mining constituency, addressed a meeting of the “five and independent,” in the only public-house is an out of-the-way gully, the name of which does not matter. When the meeting was over there was, as usual on such a confab moistened with whiskey. The confab lasted rather late, and at its conclusion the candidate and a number of those present deemed it advisable to pass the night where they were. The accommodation of the house was exceedingly limited. There were no bed-rooms, and the supply of blankets and linen was rather short. The miners used to the ways of tl • place make “ shakedowns ” for themselves on a billiard-table. The host, however, determined to do special honor to the candidate by accommodating him in a superior style, and after severe and protracted search succeeded in finding some clean sheets. He speedily improvised a “shakedown,” and informed the candidate (who by the way was preparing to follow his example of the miners) that he had made up a comfortable bed, mentioning to show the resources of his establishment that “there were clean sheets on it. ” “ Clean sheets indignantly replied the candidate. “Do you take me for a squatter, eh ? Do you think that I indulge in the despicable luxuries of the oppressors of the down-trodden miners ? No, sir, I’ll sleep with my friends on the billiard table,” Need we say how the miners in the gully voted.