POLITICAL INTELLIGENCE.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume IV, Issue 222, 30 May 1873, Page 5

POLITICAL INTELLIGENCE.

Captain .Baldwin, at". the request of a number ul' the eie.-tors of Mom it IJonger, will content t.Sio representation or that district "wi-.h Mi'. J. U. Uvudshuw. As the gallant captain is '■ at homo" in tli-it portion of-the Province, lie will likely prove the successful candiililiO. Mr. M'Kcnzii'has consented to come forward for ve-elcci.iou for tiie representation of the Waihcmo District, but. will, we hear, be opposed by Ml-. Luks, in the Mj,oandrew inler-ei-t. ' * ■ Mi\ G-. K Turton i-s a cmdidaie for the of t!ie City of Duuedin in the Provincial Council, and a lvqu'isilibn lo Mr. Ji'lia Davie, of Messrs M'Laudress, Hepburn and Co., is being numerously si..ned. It ir rumored that Mv.. M.. "C. Oibell, of Wuikoudii has offered himself as a c-jiuiidute for (.lie representation ofth.it pLee iu the Provincial Council. Oit dlt t!ie Hon.. M. Holmes is sail to have OiTei-od to put down a mirkod cheque for. £SO towards Mr. Donald Keid's expenses, if he would stand against Maoandrew-as fc-uperiii-tendent. A gentleman present immediately offered £IOO towards the expenses of Mr. Holmes himself, if lie would stand. ■ The "' Man iu the Street" complains that some ill-natured tell dale h:is been spreading a iv'purt that, wheu if became known the Provincial Council was lo be dissolved /without payment of the .honorarium, certain hotelkeepers claimed to hold the p-?vsous of some of th members as security for the'fr aec-.unta for board arid losing. . The detained meneoiripliiiu that their grog is stopped, an.l believe it to Le a device to prevent them'appealing to their constituents., A telega-am from luvercargill announces that vigorous steps.are being taken in that place for the re-election of Mr. James Macaudrew as Superintendent. It is rumored that Mi'. J..R. Cuthbertsori, who was recently elect el member ibr the ilouse of Representatives for Hie Town of iuvercargdl, wilt present himself in opposition to Mr. Greo. Luuisden. For the Waibopai, Mr. L. M'GiUivnjy, it is believed,, will stand iu opposition to Mr., William Wood. '*■ It is said that Sir F. J). Eell will not again present himself for the Oteramika, in consequence of "his having intimated his intention ■f resigning the seat at the close of the session. Twenty seven candidates are in the field for Dunedin.