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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume IX, Issue 977, 10 September 1881, Page 2

The Roaina got away early on Thursday morning with a tull cargo for "the East Coast settlements. She also took the tubing for the Southern Crow Petroleum Company’s works •at Rotokautnku., 'On their arrival l borihg operations will begin immediately.

Captain Porter’s address to the electors of the (now, almost certain) new electorate, will be found in another column of this issue. During the next few months it is a matter of certainty that there will be . some excitement over the solution of the question of the “ coming man,” which seems to be a pet phrase amongst candidates; but, for some time to qome we do not think it either prudent or desirable that promises of support should be made to any particular candidate. There is an old saying that “ there is as good fish in the sea, as ever came from it.” So it is with the coming election, and the several candidates who will present themselves for Parliamentary honors. We shall hold, to that rule by which we have been guided hitherto, namely, to wait until all the candidates are in the field before we make selection. The Bast Coast elections in the past have always been conducted on a false basis." We have not sought so; much to select the best man, as a local man. True, we have the extremely small triumph of success in beating our Tauranga friends on the platform they set up. Ou two occasions we have worsted them —the last a most emphatic political slogging But the triumph is all that we retain in the way of compensation. We elected our man, but we left a better man out in the cold; and we shall fail largely in the diagnosis of our present ailment, if we do not So far see the errors of the past, as to avoid them in future. But the question of localism cannot crop up again. We shall have our own men to choose from, and if we dp not elect the best amongst them it will be our Own fault.