POLITICS IN SHANNON.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 23 August 1910, Page 3

POLITICS IN SHANNON.

To tbo Editor. Sir, "Tn the spring, :i young man's fancy lightly turn.s to thoughts of love." ' The question naturally arisos what about tho old men! il the hard had lived in Shannon during tho last few timiiilhncMs "Accks ho womld have amended his original verses to : "In the .sprint!; an aid man's fancy lightlv turns to politics!" Hardly had the first buds appeared on l.he willow trees and the early lamb skipped across the verdant sward, when Mr .J. Rainbow Stansell informed a sleepy world that he intended to contest the Manawatu Klectorato next election! For one supreme, moment all nftUiral (and unnatural) laws were suspP!! led; the planets ceased to revolvo; tense silence reigned thrnnghn*i( ti" l cosmic; far away in "Tropica l Otuki" Mr Hyron I'rown could be heard counting his unhatched. cilnicl;ens! Then f.iiiiic one in Mr Stnnsoll's audience skilled (with an Irish accent). 'Hie spell was broken. Once nifire the planets, as if to make up lor h:st time, hiw'tlod through space ; the lawofgravi'ation, in revenue a!having its pTorc.rativo usurped, drugged an unoffending bricklayer from the lon of a New York sky-scrap , . l ! , ; t' ! c "(nci'owned King's" calculations woyo engulphed in the .redouble-! roar of the I , .«t Office culvert. We have it n;i tho very n:it!:;"rity that had the audience not '<:> summarily loft the Druids' Hall, ('■'> sp-\ikc>r would have dealt l>rieily Jtli Co Triple .Alliance, explained ''"• Memlelian theory and ProY. .' !.' ton's theory of partial contact, ui.cii his own opinion on the autiliorsh;n of th> "Letters of Junius so , '. ,h1 tho "Riddle of the Sphinx,' and discoursed at length on that ever-green controversy "Why did ti!." , cowslip?" ITar-dly had the cable wii'es cooled frriiii tho 'reverberation engendered by Mr Stansoll's ultimatum, the premature. lamb had not, quite finished skipping, when Mr "Napoleon" Murdoch burgeoned forth in t,he columns of the Horowhenua Chronicle, and in an epoch-making ukase advised tlu "wnckers" to support the eandidntu;re of Mr Rainbow Stauseil. "l*'oi one supreme moment all natural (and unnatural) laws were suspended etc." (repeat as above). Meanwhile all kinds of rumours are circulating throughout this district, Tt is incrediihly stated) that a local land agent intends to contest the Wellington Central seat, and that one i>f four leading bo->t-msikors lias boon offered (and has refused) a seat in the LegislativeCouncil. These rumours are "iven for what they are worthless. Imt it is to be hoped that they will !,o ollicially corroborated or refuted, as the present state of uncertainty is having a paralysing effect on' the London hemp market.—T am, "tc. sknkx nrsTfcrs. Shannon, August 20, 1910.