ELECTION GOSSIP.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 351, 26 November 1875, Page 3

ELECTION GOSSIP.

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The ' Guardian '' tMnfcs political honors are at a premium just now—snug, comfortable billets," even, are as in,comparison, Mr. Main, the District Land Registrar, is re cafce in point. If report speaks truly, this, gentleman intends resigning, or has already resigned, his appointment, with the view of wooing the sweet voices of the Mount Ida electors. He is an old hand at electioneering, and Mr. de Lautour will find him a pretty hard nut to crack when the.campaign opens. Candidates for Dunedin are beginning to declare themselves. We intimated some days ago that in all probability Messrs. Macandrew and J. H. Harris would, amongst others, contest the city, and we now understand that both gentlemen have announced their.Jntention to do so. There will be hot work in Dunedin as elsewhere. Well, the more the merriei. It will be the fault of the electors themselves if they are not well represented next session, for they have plenty to choee from, in all conscience.

Sir F. Dillon Bell has started the campaign at Waikduaiti. He believes in neither party, but said he hoped that if they returned him he would be able to unite Otago intereatsin Parliament better than they formerly had been, and thai the Otago vote would a real power in the Assembly. *i