TELEGRAMS.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume IX, Issue 1003, 24 November 1881, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

(from our own correspondents). Napier, Nov. 23. Captain Russell addressed the electors at Hastings last night, and received a vote of confidence. Auckland, Nov. 23. Mr. James M. Clark was re-elected Mayor of Auckland yesterday, and Mr. Robert Walker was elected Mayor of Parnell, Wellington, Nov. 23. Messi’s Wm. Hutchinson, Andrew Young, and George Fisher, were nominated for the mayoralty. Dunedin, Nov. 23. Mr. Cargill received a vote of confidence in the Dunedin central district last night. Mr Bracket makes the fifth candidate for this seat. New Plymouth, Nov. 23. Mr Kelly addressed the electors last night, and received a vote of thanks and confidence. Hiroki’s case came on at the police court this morning. Kereopa’s case was adjourned till Monday next. Te Oti was charged with robbing Fleming’s house at Rahotu, on the 26th October last, and was remanded till tomorrow. Pungarehu, Nov. 23. Parihaka is miserably dull, and the Natives very down-hearted. The strength of the A.C. on this coast is 827. Titikowaru, Te Whiti, and Te Oti, were sent to New Plymouth this morning. The A.C. camp will be removed in a few days. Road making will be resumed on Monday. The Rahotu camp will be broken up shortly. Wairoa, Nov. 23. Mr. John Gemmell has been elected Chair- . man of the Wairoa County Council for the j ensuing year.

The shaking-hands season is upon us, humorously remarks a Dunedin paper, and many persons who labored uuder the hallucination that they were almost friendless in the world, are beginning to discover that some of our leading citizens take, and have always taken, a deep interest in their welfare. Mr. Welt, the bootmaker, Mr. Togs the tailor, and Mr. Scales, the fishmonger, are beginning to think no small beer of themselves, for they have not had the honor of a warm shake-hands from the gentlemen who are in the field for Parliamentary honors. True it is that at other times, and under ordinary circumstances, the aspirants for legislative' honors would not dream of condescending to nod to them, much less to shake hands with him. But what of that ? They are now hail-fellow-well-met with each ambitious candidate, and the neglect of the former times is forgotten in the excitement of the present. The wily candidate, after shaking hands with tne horneyhanded laborer or the Iplebian tradesman, often laughs in his sleeve, I’ve no doubt, as he moves away muttering .— To buy his favor I extend this friendsliip. If he will take it so. Take care of your poor hands, my friends, now that the general elections are coming round, for if you possess votes you stand in danger of haring your fingers squeezed to pieces.

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