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Kaikoura Star, Volume VII, Issue 85, 21 October 1887, Page 2

Mr G. F. Richardson, the member for Mataura, would appear to have the courage of John Bryce. When addressing the electors near Invercargill during the recent contest he was asked ‘ Would lie, if returned, favor the extension of the Seaward Bush Railway across the Mataura ?’ Althou<rli.'pe|tfect!j aware that upon his answer s«pencfed more than seventy votes at the disposal of a neighboring land syndicate and sundry local settlers, he replied emphatically ‘ No!’ and reminded his hearers that if every constituency asked and got as much as they desired, not only would retrenchment be impossible, but extensive borrowing would continue a necessity. The usual * yes’ would have assured his return, and, as events proved, would have increased bis majority by 150. We wonder how many candidates for Parliamentary honors would have stood the test ?

At Greenwick Police Court, the landlady of a public-house at Blackheath was fined £5O and five guineas costs for selling beer that was adulterated with water.

A Highlander in full dress has been seen on the Paris Boulevards, and the apparition has be.en sufficient to throw many Frenchmen into lamentable fits ol hysterical Anglophobia.