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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XII, Issue 142, 18 June 1877, Page 2

During' the' late contest for the honor of representing Mandurang (writes '• iEgles ") onje of the candidates 'notified by advertisement his intention to address the electors in a certain -rather, thinly populated portion of the district at an early hour in the afternoon He arrived, as he thought, at the appointed place, accompanied hy an election agent and ' a few friends.^HeTvyas rather surprised to find a large crowd of the"" free and independent" congregated to receive him. _?latter_d'i by tbe.iattepti.oo: he commenced bisaddress, but .when he t was. about half : throughfhe"wa_ somewhat taken aback by a rival candidate^ driving up. , After< some explanation it waft' d : scovered that inat _ad <of candidate N6 i> being where: he thought! he was, he was in' reality twenty miles away, and was- harangn-i mg the wrong meeting— in fact, addressing' a meeting convened for 'candidate No. 2 ! i " " Sandfly. ??; writes in the Canterbury 1 _PiW.: —I am not personally. acquainted with Mr O'Shea, who has' risen jp. the pinnacle of colonial, fame hy making the largest failure of recent times in Wellington. ,J ain not sure that I should seek ah introduction,' even if I were in the Empire City. Of course it .3 impossible not to feel impressed by the daring of a man who '-could commence business ,£2O to the bad, carry on for three years, live at the rate_of £17(10. a year, purchase, properties, spend, money in improving them aud yet while doing all this, be steadily'going' down hill ot the rate bf £4000 a year." But when such a man, having failed to get further credit on earth,' 1 tries to better his. case by exhibiting a moral debenture on which heappatently hopes to obtain credit frotmheaveoy it seems to me that his daring oversteps the' limits of, good, taste. Mr O'Shea is reported by the Post to have observed " That if God should please to prosper him in his future undertakings, he would consider' himself under a moral obligation to pay up his debts.!' Some six years a{.o an Auckland merchant went for a tolerably big thing of the same kind, and many were the struggling ••smaU'm_n''that he brought down ih his fall. He was a good man, and was reported' to have opened the firßt meeting of his creditors with the words « Let us pray " These hardened gons of Mammon were, however, at that time in no mood for. devotion and his proposition was noteven seconded! He is still in business, and would, I should think, make an. excellent partner in the "future undertakings'" of the pious bankrupt of Wellington.