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

During the week, election meetings have been the rule, and not the exception. Captain Porter addressed the electors in the school-room at Patutahi on Monday night, and received a vote of thanks. On Tuesday night he met the Ormond settlers face to face, and received an almost unanimous vote of confidence. A similar meeting took place at Makaraka last night, but the result did not reach town at the hour of our going to press. Mr. Locke took the free and indepent at Ormond into his confidence on Monday night, also on Tuesday night, at Makaraka, at each of which he received flattering ovations and votes of confidence.

Mr. Allan McDonald has gone to Tologa Bay to hold forth there; a report of the meeting will reach us in due season.

Mr. Gannon and Captain Porter proceed to Wairoa and other centres of the electorate, to-day, and have arrangements on hand to keep the electoral pot boiling for some days to come. Mr. Locke will follow suit shortly. We have no space to remark on the issues of the meetings in Poverty Bay further than to say that it is a most remarkable political phenomenon that each of the candidates should—with two exceptions—have received unqualified votes of confidence at the hands of electors whose meetings were composed principally of the same persons.