proached^ • WELLINGTON.

Manawatu Herald, Issue 24, 23 November 1880, Page 2

proached^ • WELLINGTON.

♦ (l'uoii ova own coitttr.sj'oNnENT.) THF. MAYORALTY ELECTION. The election for the mayoralty takes place on Wednesday next, and a little greater interest is attaching to the event as the polling day draws near. All the candidates have publicly addressed tho electors, and Mr , Hutchison speaks again tonight. Both Diver and Young are likely to '' poll well, but it would take a better '. man than either of them, I guess, to keep Hutchison out. I heard a capital joke anent this election tlie other ■ day. A friend of mine —Mr Biunp- • tions — a leading genius at everything, , politics especially, dropped a line to I one of the candidates, giving him a - hint or two for his speech to the rate- , payers that evening, but so blind to , true genius was this worthy gentle- . man that he passed it by quite unnoticed, and my friend, after breathlessly waiting for these telling facts and figures to be uttered, went away disappointed. Imagine his disgust. But being a fellow of a persistent turn, he was not to bo beaten , by a slight rebuff like, this, so he tried . another candidate, and to afford „ variety he added a note to the letter [ lie sent to him, politely informing l hiui that certain of his previous statements were not in accordance with . fact. He then interviewed the can- ] didate, who, after receiving him with all politeness and ascertaining who he was, said " Oh you're Mr Bunip- [ tious, who sent me that letter about i my candidature ! Well, look here, I , didn't ask for your vote, and I don't want it, and that's my door." Exit , Bumptious, crestfallen. He now . hays that the first candidate has f entirely forfeited his confidence by his \ utter disregard of weighty truth, and s the second, well,— he wont vote for r him at any rate, and I guess he 3 daren't interrogate tho others. ' MR BROGDEN'. Mr Alexrnder Brogden, of the ■ great contracting firm of John Brog- ; den and Sons, arrived in the colony . by the last 'Frisco mail steamer. He !• comes presumably to close accounts ' between the Government and his ; firm, but lam afraid he has chosen . a rather bad time if ho expects to • get very much for his coming. An : empty Treasury, a more than vigor- ] ously economical Government, and a . colony suffering from great depression . in business, are not very hopeful I signs for men of his class. However, ■ I hear that the Wellington and Fox- ] ton Railway Committee are going to . interview him with a view of ascertaining whether his firm Avould un- ' dertake the construction of the line ' on any terms that would suit them, j r and I hope that the result may be an ' early commencement of tlie under- [ taking. ' GOODS SHED. , Tenders have been accepted for a • goods shed at the new railway station • on the reclaimed land. The structure is not to be a very imposing one, . nor very large, as the contract price i (£620) will indicate ; and it is to be » built of wood, too. A year or two [ ago the Government promised the I Corporation that they would respect . thtir building regulations, which re- • quire that buildings elected iv this " part of the city shall be built of brick ; I and in the Supreme Court building . and Police Station they have adhered i to their promise. And on the CorpoI ration remonstrating against a wood- . en railway station, they were put off I i with the plausible excuse that it was

nly a temporary building. But the oods shed lacks even this redeeming satvate, as there is no pretence of its eing a temporary building, so far as understand. However, in th_ie ays we must be thankful for small aercies, I suppose, and put wooden ;oods sheds down under that head.