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Kumara Times, Issue 1113, 24 April 1880, Page 3

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[to the editor.] you or any of .your readers'answer the following queries : 1. Does tho words " supplement to the Times and Leader " appear in the ■second schedule Electoral Act, p. 245 ? - & Does not those words being sent in on a claim to be registered disqualify same ]

,/3. Is it fair for the West Coast Tilines.'to run opposition fo the Dillman's Town barber in supplying forms; especially after all the assisiance he has tendered the A.R,B. v. Rodgers?

4s. The Dillman's Town barber not •having made an appearance at Kumara since the hearing of the Road Board case, is there any truth in the rumour that he has been engaged on the West Coast Times staff and that together ■with Mr Treloar (the Editor)-, Mr Reid (the Proprietor), and H. R. Rae, Esq., ! (the County Clerk), assisted by the May'ot of Hokitika. and the County Chairman, that matters will he made warm for Richard John ] 5. When may we expect Ri C; Reid, M.H.R., the senior member; to givti us his post-sessional speech 1 Or is he laying back for the junior to lead 1 Or why does not the West Coast Times chastise the pair of them for not having done so ere this ? Had poor Barn 5 been a niember, how different things would ha\vj been. [l. The words do not' appear. 2. Yes; most distinctly. 3. Theie could bond opposition, as the forms supplied by Mr Stanhope were in accordance with the Act; those by the West Coast Times wei'e Simply; a Supplement to that jputnal. 4. The rumor is unfounded, as Mv Stanhope is. at present, we regret, under Hospital, treatment, in f Hokitika, owing .doubtless to the prolonged strain his mental', system underwent in connection with a Cuse. of a " tennant" iu ; which he was engaged. 5. Mr Reid, is evidently awaiting the key note from Sir George Grey at Tn-

vercargill, while Mr fceddon, with his characteristic mode>sty awaits the utterances of the great double barrelled orator at Hpkitika.—Ed. K.T.] ■'