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New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 4571, 13 November 1875, Page 2

Some unimportant dissatisfaction has been expressed because there are not a number of candidates in the field for the two Wellington seats, which are not yet vacant, and because Messrs. Huuter and Pearce have not been ostentations in announcing their intention to seek re-election. It can scarcely be regarded as regrettable that the city is not to have a dozen or so candidates, plunging it into a useless contest ; and as the constituency has expressed no unwillingness to be again represented by Messrs. Hunter and Pearce, and as those gentlemen have expressed no desire to sever the connection with their constituency, there seems to be no cause for annoyance because we are not to be prematurely treated to a political excitement, of which we have had quite too much for the real progress of the colony recently. When the proper time comes, however, there is no doubt but that our present representatives will aimounce that which is their immediate intention, namely, to again place themselves at the disposal of the electors, should the electors see fit to return them. As to some nonsense which has been talked about the city’s being practically unrepresented, because its members have gone into opposite lobbies on the Abolition Bill, that is easily disposed of. It is true that on this matter the Wellington representatives were divided, but on all other questions affecting the colony, and more particularly on all questions affecting the city of Wellington, they were united. The practical settlement of the principle of abolition has removed the only cause of disunion. Abolition is now an accepted fact, and in working out the government of the colony,

local and general, under a new machinery, there is nothing to prevent Messrs. Hunter and Pearce from working in concert, and that they will, if re-elected, work in concert we may be pretty well assured.

In our supplement to-day will be found an account of one of the most singular and fearful crimes that even London, where singular and fearful crimes are historical, has yet known. It seems unaccountable that the crime under notice, a murder of an evidently horrible kind, should not have been mentioned In telegraphic news, seeing that such news not unfrequently chronicles events of this description, and that the present one has been made subject matter for report and discussion by every English paper, from the great Times down to the obscurest provincial paper. We do not as a rule care about filling our columns with that class of criminal records with which it is the pleasure of some journalists to supply their readers, but the present is one of those cases which, however revolting they may be, _by their singular surroundings excite a widespread interest, and cannot be passed over. It would be impossible to give an outline of the particulars here. We have published elsewhere a full report of the px-ooeedings at the magisterial investigation into the case.