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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIV, Issue 223, 1 October 1879, Page 4

Sir George Grey (say the Pott of Friday) has not aa yet made his choice as to whether he will sit for Cbristchurch or Thames. By law he is not required to make his election for ten days after the opening of Parliament. Of course, Sir George Grey is pledged to ait for Chri3tehurch, but it is reported that there is a probability of this being added to the already long list of broken pledges of which Sir George Grey has already to bear the responsibility. The fact is, that if be elects to sit for Christchurch and gives up the Thames, he is very likely to find himself out iv the cold altogether, as it is almost certain that his return for Christchurch will be petitioned against, and the petition be sustained by such a mass of evidence as to render it probable tbat the late election for Christchurch will be nullified, and the Premier be left without a seat in Parliament. Mr Bracken, one of the defeated at Dunedin, is reported by the Morning Herald to have spoken thus, after the declaration of the poll : — Fellow citizens— Considering that I came into the field at the eleventh hour, I consider that you have done me great honor by polling so many votes in my favor. lam sorry for your own aakes— (laughter)— that you have not supported the present Government. (Hear, Hear.) I am sure they have the interests of the country at heart more than their opponents. (" No.") I have had

no committee,<no organisation, no bribery, no corruption. I have gone on my own merits. I consider that the present electioneering tactics are a disgrace to civilisation. If men do not come forward to vote without the aid i of committees — without being forced and , dragged to the poll like a lot of brutes — ' they do not deserve to have the franchise. (Uproar.) Gentlemen, I thank you. A terrible accident occurred ou June 24 at Cwmavon Colliery, Glamorganshire, resulting in the amost instantaneous death of six men. It appears that the chain rope of the Meadow pit, belonging to the Cwmavon Company — a colliery with workings 200 yards deep -suddenly broke while the cage with the relief men was in motion. Six of the men were dashed to the bottom of the pit and killed) At his political meeting at Temuka, just before the election, an elector asked Mr E. Wakefield if he would support a measure for dealing with bankruptcy cases without calling in the aid of lawyers. Mr Wakefield replied that he would do anything that would do away with lawyers altogether. He had no sympathy with them, and would as soon walk into a lion's den as into a lawyer's office, and would advise anyone not to have anything to do with them. Mr Wakefield is a leading Oppositionist, so Lawyer Fisher, M.H.R., will have a chance to " slate " that gentleman when the House meets. — Westport Timei.