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Grey River Argus, Volume XVI, Issue 2144, 23 June 1875, Page 2

Mb W. S. MOO.RHOUSE has not succeeded in getting into Parliament upon the shoulders of the Wairau constituency, but he ran the local candidate, Mr Ward, an old resident, very hard. This is the second futile attempt Mr Moorhouse has made in the last few years to obtain a seat outside of the Province with which he in the past has been so intimately and prominently associated, and unless Canterbury will find him an opening at the next general election its ex-Superinten-dent will probably have to beat his wings discontentedly at the Parliamentary portals. Of Mr Ward, the successor of Mr Seymour, little is known outside his own locality, but, so far as we can gather from the published speeches of the two candidates, the Wairau electors have chosen as member a person of very crude ideas on political questions, and utterly inexperienced, in preference to a veteran politician because the latter was a non-resident. Mr Moorhouse, although in some things a much over-rated man would be a useful addition to the House of Representatives, and would certainly be a valuable representative to any constituency. Perhaps he will find an opportunity of obtaining a seat for Christchurch East, for it is not to be supposed that the electors of that district would care to return Mr E. J. Wakefield a second time.