New Zealand Times. (PUBLISHED DAILY.) MONDAY, DECEMBER 20.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 4602, 20 December 1875, Page 2

New Zealand Times. (PUBLISHED DAILY.) MONDAY, DECEMBER 20.

To-day the nominations for the City of Wellington take place at noon, and as there is no doubt; that the contest on the polling day will be as keen as the interest in the elections is at present intense, it behoves the friends of the gentlemen who, for five years, have represented the city in the House to support them by a numerous muster at the hustings this day. Though three of the four candidates have addressed the electors at length, there is bound to be much spoken to-day both new and interesting ; and this, if nothing else, should induce the electors to attend and hear for themselves what the seekers for their suffrages have to say. In making this observation, we impartially address ourselves to the friends of all the candidates. But supporting, as we do most pronouncedly, the candidatures of Messrs. Peakce and Hunter, wo would desire more particularly to address ourselves to their supporters. These gentlemen have for live years represented the city in Parliament, and, with all the opposition that has been sought to be created against them, no tangible objection to their past mode of service or to their present political creed has been attempted to be shown. ' In fact, the appeals made for support for Mr. Travers have as a rule been appeals to vote for him for some reason or another, but in no serious manner, because fault can be found with Messrs. Peakce and Huktek. Those gentlemen's interests are bound up and connected with the city in every respect; if there bo class interests, they may fairly claim to represent them all, especially those of the working man, though in reality all are working men. However, if it be proper to designate one class as working in contradistinction to others, then it is only necessary to point to the career of Messrs. Peabcji

and Hunter as citizens to show that, whetlier in their business or/their public capacities,. Jhe interests of* the working man have never suffered'at their hands. They themselves have the closest of all ties with whatever can advance the city, and make her population'prosperous and contented. The story of, their lives as colonists can point to better efforts for that prosperity and contentment than mere frothy appeals which have no tangible experience in the past to recommend them7*and hold out no hope of tangible effort in the future to make good their promises. The personal esteem in which Messrs. Peabce and Hunter are held by all classes, the esteem in which they were held in Parliament, speaks more loudly in their favor than the momentary applause which glibness and recklessness of fact can at any moment wring from a hasty assemblage. We are certain that the best proof of this will be found in the return of Messrs. Pearce and Hunter on the polling day, and in the presence of all who wish them success at the hustings at noon to-day.