THE coming man to guide the political destinies of the colony has had his first real appearance. Hitherto Mr. Gillon has only appeared at abolition meetings in a position analagous to that of some clumsy and conceited stage supernumerary who carries a banner in a procession but considers that on him depends the main interest of the piece. But he has had at last, so to speak, an opportunity of starring it. A meeting was held on Thursday at Pahautanui, which Mr. Gillon attended by invitation, and wherehe was the chief performer of the evening. The numerical testimony of the audience was equal to the attributes of the performer, numbering as it did 20, Mr. Gillon treated the political question of the day in the elephantine style, which is his characteristic, and its result was immediately pereeptiblo. The meeting decided against him by a majority of 6.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 4499, 21 August 1875, Page 2
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